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The founder of Facebook mark Zuckerberg said that the social network will give the U.S. Congress the data in the case of “Russian intervention”. About this he wrote on his page in Facebook.
“Today I have ordered that we transmitted to the Congress is, we discovered,” said Zuckerberg, commenting on earlier information on custom advertising in Facebook who are using fake accounts allegedly arranged with the Russians to influence the course of presidential elections in the United States.
He acknowledged that cooperating with the US authorities on charges of “Russian interference” in the American presidential elections in 2016. According to Zuckerberg, his company for many months led the investigation, “the Russian presence”. “I don’t want someone used our tools to undermine democracy,” he said.
However, he noted that Facebook failed to find evidence linking fake accounts with the Russian is. “We hope that the government will publish the results of its work when the investigation is complete,” Zuckerberg hoped.
6 September blog Facebook was posted the head of the security service of the company, Alex Stamos. It was alleged that during the period from June 2015 to may 2017 470 fake accounts bought seats for about three thousand advertising messages, spending about 100 thousand dollars. The social network I believe that they were all linked and operated from Russia.
In the message Stamos noted that most of the ads did not address the subject of the presidential race. The question they most often focused on various political and social issues, including the topic of the LGBT community, racial differences, immigration and the right to bear arms. Identified the fake accounts were blocked.
Russia has repeatedly accused of meddling in the US presidential election. American journalists and officials claimed that “Russian hackers” allegedly kidnapped the correspondence of the Democrats and published in the Internet and tried to get into the electronic vote counting system. Moscow denies such accusations, including at the highest level.