Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’

By artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 2:53pm |

By Sheera Frenkel & Mike Isaac @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 19

MENLO PARK, Calif. — [....] Although it is not much to look at now, as of next week the space will be Facebook’s headquarters for safeguarding elections. More than 300 people across the company are working on the initiative, but the War Room will house a smaller team of about 20 people focused on rooting out disinformation, monitoring false news and deleting fake accounts that may be trying to influence voters before coming elections in the United States, Brazil and other countries.

“We see this as probably the biggest companywide reorientation since our shift from desktops to mobile phones,” said Samidh Chakrabarti, who leads Facebook’s elections and civic engagement team. The company, he added, “has mobilized to make this happen.” [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/technology/facebook-election-war-room.html