Facebook’s Election Ad Overhaul Takes Crucial First Steps

Facebook’s Election Ad Overhaul Takes Crucial First Steps

Facebook has agreed to give Congressional investigators roughly 3,000 political ads it found linked to Russian accounts that ran during the 2016 election. The company will also overhaul the way it approaches campaign ads altogether, seeking to create a “new standard for transparency,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an address on Facebook Live Thursday. This …