Facebook, along with Twitter and Google, are set to testify at three hearings Tuesday and Wednesday as part of congressional probes of Russian election interference. That number is nearly 14 times larger than the number of accounts Twitter handed over to congressional committees three weeks ago, according to a person familiar with the matter. Lawmakers are also expected to probe whether the firms know of any connections between the Russian posts and the Trump campaign. The company also found nine Russian accounts that bought ads, most of which came from the state-backed news service Russia Today, or RT. It will provide a public database of election ads detailing who purchased each one, and will publish a transparency report on election ads as well.

Source: thestar October 31, 2017 18:22 UTC