Facebook gets friendlier with Congress on Russia ads

Zuckerberg now cooperating with Congress after criticism for role in election … and more. Get the day’s politics news in 60 seconds every weekday. By Tom McCarthy
  
  

Better late than never?
Better late than never? Photograph: Manu Fernandez/AP

1. Citizen Facebook

Facebook will provide to Congress the contents of 3,000 advertisements purchased by Russians during the 2016 US presidential race, says Mark Zuckerberg, amid scrutiny of the social network’s potential role in influencing elections.

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What happened

After an extensive legal and policy review, today we are announcing that we will also share these ads with congressional investigators. We believe it is vitally important that government authorities have the information they need to deliver to the public a full assessment of what happened in the 2016 election.

– Colin Stretch, Facebook general counsel

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2. Spicer on lying

The former White House press secretary Sean Spicer went on TV and said he had not “knowingly” lied to the American people from the White House podium. At least he said his name was Sean Spicer.

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'My integrity'

I made mistakes, there’s no question, I think we all do. Some of them I tried to own very publicly. In some cases there were things that I did that until someone brought it up, I said, ‘Gosh, I didn’t realize that was a mistake, I’m sorry about that.’ But to watch some of the personal attacks, questioning my integrity, questioning what my intentions were, I think were really over the top.

– Sean Spicer, who lied about Trump’s inauguration crowd

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3. All the president's men

A new analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian has found that 80% of nominations for top jobs in the Trump administration have gone to men – putting Trump on track to assemble the most male-dominated federal government in nearly a quarter-century.

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4. The Alaska pot-sweetener

Senators pushing a new bill to dismantle Barack Obama’s healthcare law reportedly offered the Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski, a holdout, a deal in which Alaska would not have to participate in the new law – if only she voted for it.

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