Facebook has turned over to Congress all 3,000 ads it discovered Russian operatives purchased between 2015 and 2017 in an effort to influence the 2016 election.
In a post on Monday, Joel Kaplan, Facebook's Vice President of Public Policy, announced the move, adding "Many [of the ads] appear to amplify racial and social divisions" and violated Facebook's policies because they came from fake accounts.
The Washington Post revealed one of the ads showed an armed black woman firing a rifle and others featured photos of Hillary Clinton behind prison bars.
Kaplan also explained that the company plans to do more to increase security and transparency, including hiring 1,000 new employees to review ads and showing all users what other ads a particular buyer has purchased and promoted on the network. Kaplan's whole post is here.
Meanwhile, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, would like the public to be able to see all the fake Facebook ads and says he hopes to have at least a "representative sample" available before his committee hears from Facebook later this month.
On the Senate side, Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) plan to hold a joint press conference on the status of their committee's investigation on Wednesday.