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| Facebook agrees to release information about Russian-purchased ads to Congress | |
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| Facebook has reached agreement with the US Congress to release the ads purchased by a Russian agency during the 2016 presidential campaign, the social network said in a statement. | |
| "After an extensive legal and policy review, we’ve concluded that sharing the ads we’ve discovered with Congress, in a manner that is consistent with our obligations to protect user information, will help government authorities complete the vitally important work of assessing what happened in the 2016 election," Facebook said in its blog. | |
| “We want to do our part,” the company said, adding that “Congress is best place to use the information we and others provide.” | |
| “The vast majority of our over 5 million advertisers use our self-service tools,” without contact with the company’s employees, it said, adding that’s how the ads in question were acquired. | |
| “So there was nothing necessarily noteworthy at the time about a foreign actor running an ad involving a social issue. Of course, knowing what we’ve learned since the election, some of these ads were indeed both noteworthy and problematic,” the statement read. |