Facebook's Sandberg meets with House leaders on Russia probe

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg met with House leaders on Capitol Hill to brief them on the social media platform’s investigation into alleged Russian use of the site to influence the 2016 presidential campaign. Following Sandberg’s meeting with the House Intelligence Committee, the panel’s top members said that they would be making public the 3,000 ads purchased by Russian groups during the campaign that Facebook handed over to congressional investigators.

Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that in addition to the ads, Facebook would also be turning over data on how many people the fake Kremlin-linked accounts were able to reach beyond their paid advertisements. “Obviously, we’re going to want to get a complete sense of what the Russians were doing on their platforms and others,” Schiff said. “Not just the advertising but all the downstream consequences of that advertising, all the things that they were pushing out through non-advertising means on these platforms."