, Columnist
Facebook Could Do a Lot More on Trump-Russia
The company could probably measure the effect of election-meddling if it wanted to.
Did it work?
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergThe world now knows, thanks to Facebook’s disclosures, that Russians bought a lot of ads in an effort to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. But that still leaves the more important question: Did they succeed?
I think Facebook could do a lot more to find an answer.