Facebook Is Hiring 1,000 People to Review Ads and Monitor Targeting

10 million people in the U.S. saw Russia-linked ads

Facebook is planning to hire 1,000 more employees dedicated to reviewing and removing malicious or fake ads on the platform, a company spokesperson confirmed this morning.

The news comes in light of Facebook’s discovery that a Russia-linked organization bought more than 3,000 ads on the platform, which the social networks says it plans to hand over to Congress today for its investigation as to whether international agents attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election.

While it was initially unclear how many users saw the ads, Facebook on Monday evening announced around

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