Facebook's Election Safeguards Are Still a Work in Progress
Facebook's Election Safeguards Are Still a Work in Progress
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 30, 20185m 53s
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Show Notes
Nearly three years after a Russian propaganda group infiltrated Facebook and other tech platforms in hopes of seeding chaos in the 2016 US election, Facebook has more fully detailed its plan to protect elections around the world. In a call with reporters Thursday, Facebook executives elaborated on their use of human moderators, third-party fact checkers, and automation to catch fake accounts, foreign interference, fake news, and to increase transparency in political ads.
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