Facebook responds to charges that it did too little to stop election meddling

Facebook executive Monika Bickert tells NBC News that content from now-removed Russian accounts was “unacceptable,” and many of the problems came from fake accounts. Now, the company faces questions of how its posts are reviewed and what might change in 2018.

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