Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: Things happened on our platform in this election that shouldn't have...
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Thursday she supports the public release of Russian-linked political ads that ran on Facebook and have been shared with Congress.
"Things happened on our platform in this election that shouldn't have happened, especially — and very troubling — foreign interference in a democratic election," Sandberg told Axios. "And we know that we have a responsibility to do everything we can to prevent this kind of abuse on our platform."
Sandberg, who supported Hillary Clinton in the election and is a former Treasury Department staffer, is expected to meet with members of Congress on Thursday, according to Recode. She has already met with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, according to previous reports.
The meetings come as Congress is investigating the role of Russian actors in the 2016 U.S. election, including thousands of advertisements that ran on Facebook. Sandberg said she supports publicly releasing the advertisements, as well as the pages they were linked to.
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