you know these michela cusco they're reporting from munich now in the run up to sunday's vote there has been much discussion about the prospect of illegal foreign interference in the election against that backdrop facebook has been stepping up its efforts to boost transparency in the area of paid political advertising this comes after the company revealed it to carry thousands of political ads during last year's u.s. election believed to have originated in russia here's what facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg had to say. i wish i could tell you that we're going to stop all interference but that just wouldn't be realistic there will always be bad actors in the world and we can't prevent all governments from all interference but we can make it harder we can make it much harder we've been working to ensure the integrity of the german elections this weekend from taking action against thousands of fake accounts to partnering with public authorities like the federal office for information security to sharing security practices with the candidates and parties . we're also examining the