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I care deeply about the democratic process and protecting its integrity Facebook's mission is all about giving people a voice and bringing people closer together those are democratic values and we're proud of them I don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy that's not what we stand for and this morning I directed our team to provide the ads we've found to Congress as well Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company will turn over 3,000 ads purchased by fake accounts linked to Russia that may have influenced the outcome of the 2016 US elections he said Facebook conducted an internal investigation that revealed nearly 100 thousand dollars had been spent on election ads from these accounts in the live broadcast Zuckerberg laid out a nine-point plan to prevent election interference in the future the plan would make political advertising more transparent on Facebook it would allow Facebook to vet the content and disclose who paid for it the company also plans to share risk information with other tech companies and beef up its security team with an additional 250 employees for this division but even Zuckerberg admits this may not be enough to deter election fraud online now I wish I could tell you that we're gonna be able to stop all interference but that just wouldn't be realistic Zuckerberg seems to have done a 180 from his comments soon after the November elections you know personally I think the the idea that you know fake news on Facebook of which you know it's a very small amount of the content influence the election in any way I think is a pretty crazy idea you