Facebook's Efforts to Protect Election Integrity

I wish I could tell you that we're gonna be able to stop all

interference,

but that just wouldn't be realistic.

There will always be bad actors in the world,

and we can't prevent all governments

from all interference. But we can make it harder.

We can make it much harder, and that's what we're going to focus on

doing. So today, I wanna share the steps that we're taking

to protect election integrity and make sure that Facebook

is a force for good in

democracy. And while the amount of problematic

content that we've found so

far remains relatively small, any attempted interference

is a serious issue. So here are nine things that we're gonna

be working on over the next few months.

First, we are actively working with the US

government on its

ongoing investigations into Russian interference.

We've been investigating this for many months now, and for a while,

we had found no

evidence of fake accounts linked to Russian, uh, linked to Russia running ads.

Uh, and when we recently uncovered this

activity, we provided that information to

the special counsel. We also briefed Congress,

and this morning,

I directed our team to provide the ads we've found to Congress as well.

Now, as a general rule, we're gonna be limited in what we can

discuss

publicly about ongoing law enforcement investigations, so we may not

always be able to share all of our findings publicly.

But we support Congress in deciding how to best use this information

to inform the public, and we expect the government to publish

its

findings when their investigation is complete.

Second,

we will continue our own investigation into what happened on Facebook in

this election.

We may find more, and if we do, we will continue to work with the

government on it. We're looking into foreign actors,

including additional Russian

groups and other former Soviet states, as well as organizations

like the campaigns, to further our own understanding of how

they

used all of our tools.