U.S. Senate to Mark Zuckerberg: Come in and chat on Russia

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Hey Mark Zuckerberg, the Senate is calling.

The Senate Intelligence Committee invited Facebook to testify in an open hearing about how foreign actors (cough, Russia, cough) may have leveraged the social network to influence the 2016 presidential election, The Hill reported Wednesday. 

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The committee set the hearing for November 1. They also invited Google, Politico reported earlier Wednesday. Twitter received an invitation as well, according to The Hill. 

These requests come more than a month after Facebook revealed Russia-linked accounts spent more than $100,000 on about 3,000 political ads during the 2016 election. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat and vice chair in the committee, has been calling for a public hearing since that admission. Now, the invitations have been sent.  Read more...

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