Congress wants you to see those Russian Facebook ads

Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee plan to publicly release copies of 3,000 Russia-linked ads that appeared on Facebook. Meanwhile, Facebook COO [Sheryl Sandberg continues her Silicon Valley state visit to D.C](., chatting with top lawmakers from both parties who are investigating Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election. Keep up with this [important evolving story]( with Recode’s recap. [[Tony Romm / Recode](] Facebook unveiled its second virtual-reality headset, a $199 standalone device called Oculus Go, which will ship “early next year.” Facebook’s first headset, the Oculus Rift, is expensive for casual VR explorers, and requires a high-powered PC along with cables and wires. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Go fits in the “sweet spot” between the Rift and other portable, smartphone-powered headsets. [[Kurt Wagner / Recode](] Apple CEO Tim Cook talks in depth about how Apple “instantly overnight” became the largest augmented-reality platform by putting AR on the iPhone, why Apple believes AR will be world-changing, and why he remains hopeful about the arc of history and progress. Silicon Valley’s most powerful black woman, [Denise Young Smith, Apple’s first-ever VP of diversity and inclusion](, is also speaking up. [[Andrew Griffin / The Independent](] Actress Rose McGowan, who has been using Twitter to criticize Harvey Weinstein and those who worked with him, says her account has been suspended. McGowan settled a harassment complaint with the now-disgraced producer in 1997. [[Mashable](] Amazon has replaced Google as corporate America's boogeyman. That's based on data from public shareholder calls, where Jeff Bezos and company were mentioned 2,090 times in the last year. [[Rani Molla / Recode](] Choosing a smart speaker for the home shouldn’t be a snap decision — it’s a choice as big as Windows versus Mac, or iPhone versus Android, and the investment of training time and personal data is hard to replace.[[Scott Rosenberg / Backchannel](] [Insert alt text here] [The Harvey Weinstein stories that got away.]( David Carr tried in 2001. Ken Auletta tried in 2002. They couldn’t document the abuses they had heard about. [SoftBank was behind four of the five biggest venture capital deals last quarter.]( It’s raising the stakes in Silicon Valley. [Netflix has hired a new exec to tackle policy challenges in Europe and around the world.]( It has poached Monique Meche from Amazon. [Broadcast TV is not dead, "Empire" showrunner Ilene Chaiken says.]( On the latest Recode Decode podcast, Chaiken also predicts how the Netflix-Amazon-Hulu rivalry will shake out. [Brit + Co CEO Brit Morin explains how she became her generation’s answer to Martha Stewart when she was just 25](. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Morin's origin story includes helping launch Google’s TV push and being buddies with Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. [Insert alt text here] [All the rage.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences]( to receive fewer emails, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving all emails from Vox. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.