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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Friday, December 6th and... Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Friday, December 6th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

Dark money has made its way into political advertising

in the UK general election.

CVC Capital Partners could be creating global football tournaments that challenge some of the sports biggest leagues.

Uber releases its first ever safety report and U.S. House Democrats ready articles of impeachment

against President Donald Trump.

Plus Saudi Aramco becomes the world's biggest IPO, as OPEC and its allies discuss more oil production

cuts in Vienna.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

So-called shadow political campaigns bought thousands of digital ads in the first month

of the UK general election campaign.

And it's not just on Facebook. An FT analysis found

that these campaigns which have no clear party affiliation have spent more than

500,000 pounds on ads with Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Snapchat.

It's more than double the amount spent by the Conservative Party's Central Office on

Facebook ads.

There's not a whole lot of surface-level information available on these groups,

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