Julie ainge win, longtime wall street journal reporter is our guest this week on the communicators to talk about facebook, political ads and russia. What have we learned in the past couple of months from the investigation into facebook and the russian ads . Thank you for having me on. We learn a lot in the last month or two about facebook and russia facebook has said they learn a bunch of ads placed during the election were placed by russian outfits under anonymous accounts and they were politically divisive ads, not necessarily aimed at one candidate or another but just aim at sowing divisiveness on charged topics. Host why did facebook not seem to know who was placing these ads . Guest its not totally clear why facebook didnt do more Due Diligence on these accounts. The ads were brought in rubles. There are laws that say foreigners cap by ooh lex ads about apparently election ads and apparently these slipped through and because that are were under Fake Identities maybe the didnt find