Facebook will testify before Congress about its influence on female eroticism role of breatsthe 2016 election.
The news, confirmedvia a source at Facebook, arrived just as Sen. Richard Burr and Sen. Mark Warner held a press conference Wednesday to provide updates on what their team has done since launching the investigation on Russia's interference—and to warn that Russian meddling had not stopped. Twitter also agreed to testify, Recodereported.
SEE ALSO: Zuckerberg fires back at Trump over Facebook’s role in the U.S. electionSens. Warner and Burr emphasized that their investigation is ongoing, and that collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russians had not been ruled out. The senators also reiterated their call for Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify in open hearings—which Facebook and Twitter has now said it will do.
"We have not come to any final conclusions," Sen. Burr said. "There are concerns we continue to pursue: collusion."
Wednesday's press conference followed the Tuesday evening revelation that Russian-bought Facebook ads had targeted swings states including Michigan and Wisconsin, and important step forward in establishing the sophistication of the cyber propaganda efforts to swing the 2016 election.
Warner and Burr did not provide more information on this development, but emphasized that they are still sorting through a large amount of information.
“This is taking a long time. But getting it right and getting all the facts is what we owe the American people," Sen. Warner added later.
Facebook has steadily backpedaled in recent months regarding its role in Russia's election meddling. CEO Mark Zuckerberg once called the notion that his social network had been used in such a way "crazy." Now, the company has said it's committed to preventing future "election interference." That statement came in the wake of its own confirmations that Russia-linked accounts purchased 3,000 political ads during the 2016 election. But until now, it has held closed door meetings with officials.
On Nov. 1, Facebook and Twitter will participate in an open hearing. The companies have not disclosed which executives will take the stand.
There have been a long string of developments, surfaced by Facebook's public statements, Senate hearings, and media reports on the ways the company and other social media platforms could have influenced the election. Sen. Warner, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has been outspoken about the need for Facebook to take more action and be more transparent. They listened.
"I was concerned they didn't take it seriously," said Sen. Warner. "We're seeing that change."
Ironically for the conference, the lawmakers tapped one of the best public distribution tools out there: Facebook. Yes, the very same platform where 3,000 Russian-linked ads were seen by 10 million peopleduring the election.
In the hearing, the senators also emphasized what they will not do. That includes not sharing any documents such as the 3,000 ads. But Facebook could, Sen. Burr and Sen. Warner suggested during their conference.
"Due to both federal law and the fact that investigations are ongoing with the relevant authorities, we’re unable to share the ads," Facebook said in a statement last month.
Last month, the Senate Intelligence Committee had invited Facebook, Twitter, and Google to testify in an open hearing about how foreign actors may have leveraged their platforms to influence the 2016 election earlier. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Sen. Burr shared few initial findings, but emphasized the scale of their work. The briefing included a visual that emphasized the scale of the process. The staff read 100,000 pages of documents, which the staffed compared to more than 80 copies of War and Peace.
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The team has interviewed more than 100 people.
"We have interviewed every official of the Obama administration to fully understand what they saw … and what they did or did not do. Again, I’m reminded that we will come out with a finding at some point,” Sen. Burr said.
Facebook hasn't stayed completely silent. After a now embarrassing mistake of saying the thought of fake news and Facebook influencing the election was a "pretty crazy idea" shortly after the election, Zuckerberg used Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, to reflect on the role his platform played in the election.
"For those I hurt this year, I ask forgiveness and I will try to be better," he wrote on Facebook. "For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better."
His company purchased print ads in the Wall Street Journaland the New York TimesWednesday to share more on the "immediate actions" they have taken to address
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But it's clear that lawmakers want more.
This post was updated with information about Twitter.
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