OnPolitics Today: Zuckerberg accepts Congress's friend request

Show Caption Hide Caption Facebook to release Russia ads to Congress Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is "actively working" with the U.S. government on its ongoing investigations into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. (Sept. 21)

Russian-linked entities bought 3,000-plus ads to sway the presidential election via Facebook, that little website you visit daily that, until this week, let customers target their ads to attract self-described "Jew haters."

That's not a great look for Facebook and wannabe president Mark Zuckerberg, who on Thursday caved to Congress and agreed to fork over Russia-linked ads to lawmakers. (Bob Mueller, the investigator slowly circling President Trump's friends and family, received similar data, too.)

Both Democrats and Republicans want a piece of Facebook: Lawmakers on the left say it's grown too powerful, while those on the right dislike the company's public and progressive stances on immigration and other social issues.

"I'm not going to sit here and tell you we're going to catch all bad content in our system," Zuckerberg said Thursday on Facebook. "We don't check what people say before they say it, and frankly, I don't think our society shouldn't want us to."

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