Facebook’s Turning Over Those Election Ads to Congress

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Cue nearly a minute of Mark Zuckerberg looking waxy and stiff.

After months of reaching around in the dark, Facebook has finally found evidence of Russian intervention through Facebook ads. They will now be handing this info to congress. Expect a whole lot of nothing to happen at the speed of sound. Per their newsroom post:

We believe the public deserves a full accounting of what happened in the 2016 election, and we’ve concluded that sharing the ads we’ve discovered, in a manner that is consistent with our obligations to protect user information, can help. – Facebook General Councilmember Colin Stretch

We’re talking about a site that happily censored this:

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And not far more objectionable content. So I’d imagine all of this to be a long, drawn out, nonsensical process. I’ll laugh if it’s really just nothing, too. Like the majestic Fire Duck was.

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