Facebook agrees to give Congress ads linked to Russian election interference

In a major reversal, Facebook agreed today to share with Congress more than 3,000 ads linked to a Kremlin-linked group believed to attempted to influence the 2016 US election. The company had previously shared the ads with Robert Mueller, the special counsel currently investigating Russian interference in the presidential election. Facebook had resisted sharing the information more broadly, saying it would threaten advertisers’ privacy.
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