Facebook plays nice with Congress on Russian ads

Facebook said Thursday it would provide information about 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency during the 2016 presidential election to congressional investigators. The online social media service already handed over the content to the special counsel investigating the matter and now plans to give it to the Senate and House intelligence committees as well. In addition, Facebook plans to change its policies to make it easier for users to see all of the political ads a given buyer is running. That way, users can see how the buyer is targeting different groups on Facebook. “I don’t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook video and wrote in an accompanying post. “That’s not what we stand for.”