--- title: Mark Zuckerberg's Statement on Russian Election Meddling description: Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will give more than 3,000 ads linked to Russia to Congressional investigators. canonical: https://time.com/4952391/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia-meddling-congress/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-21T20:25:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:51:26.472Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Mark Zuckerberg's Full Statement on Russian Election Meddling og:description: "I care deeply about the democratic process" og:url: https://time.com/4952391/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia-meddling-congress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa82619f841a27c7/6988dee14ee2623dfd30f1b2/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Mark Zuckerberg Delivers Keynote Address At Facebook F8 Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Mark Zuckerberg's Full Statement on Russian Election Meddling twitter:description: "I care deeply about the democratic process" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa82619f841a27c7/6988dee14ee2623dfd30f1b2/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'I Care Deeply About the Democratic Process.' 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Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 21, 2017 8:25 PM UTC Facebook CEO [Mark Zuckerberg](http://time.com/4918984/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-august/) announced Thursday that the company will hand over more than 3,000 Russia-linked political ads to Congressional committees investigating [Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election](http://time.com/4775707/andrew-mccabe-congress-testimony/). Zuckerberg’s announcement comes after the social network said earlier this month that nearly 500 accounts likely originating in Russia bought $100,000 worth of Facebook ads [during the election](http://time.com/4930532/facebook-russian-accounts-2016-election/). Facebook said it had previously shared the information with U.S. officials investigating Russian interference leading up to Election Day. On Thursday, Zuckerberg revealed a nine-step plan to stop states from interfering in one another’s elections via Facebook, noting that the amount of “problematic content” found so far is “relatively small.” “I wish I could tell you we’re going to be able to stop all interference, but that wouldn’t be realistic,” Zuckerberg said on Facebook. “There will always be bad people in the world, and we can’t prevent all governments from all interference. But we can make it harder. We can make it a lot harder. And that’s what we’re going to do.” Read Zuckerberg’s full statement below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4952391/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia-meddling-congress/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4952391/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia-meddling-congress/"},"headline":"'I Care Deeply About the Democratic Process.' 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