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Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Sheera Frankel and Mike Isaac [write from The New York Times]: "Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of Facebook's campus, an approximately 25-foot by 35-foot conference room is under construction. Thick cords of blue wiring hang from the ceiling, ready to be attached to window-size computer monitors on 16 desks. On one wall, a half dozen televisions will be tuned to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other major cable networks. A small paper sign with orange lettering taped to the glass door describes what's being built: "War Room."
Set to open next week, the conference room is in keeping with Facebook's nick-of-time approach to midterm election preparedness. (It introduced a "pilot program" for candidate account security on Monday.) It's a big project. Samidh Chakrabarti, who oversees elections and civic engagement, told the Times: "We see this as probably the biggest companywide reorientation since our shift from desktops to mobile phones." Of course, the effort extends beyond the new conference room. Chakrabarti showed the Times a new internal tool "that helps track information flowing across the social network in real time," helping to identify misinformation as it goes viral or a surge in the creation of new (and likely fake) accounts.
Set to open next week, the conference room is in keeping with Facebook's nick-of-time approach to midterm election preparedness. (It introduced a "pilot program" for candidate account security on Monday.) It's a big project. Samidh Chakrabarti, who oversees elections and civic engagement, told the Times: "We see this as probably the biggest companywide reorientation since our shift from desktops to mobile phones." Of course, the effort extends beyond the new conference room. Chakrabarti showed the Times a new internal tool "that helps track information flowing across the social network in real time," helping to identify misinformation as it goes viral or a surge in the creation of new (and likely fake) accounts.
Even you Trump supporters should give a fuck if ANY foreign country, especially one as corrupt as Russia, run by someone as corrupt and conquest-minded as Putin, interferes in our electoral process -- or do you not actually believe in your heart of hearts that Republican candidates can make it on their own without outside help? Are you un-American? Is 'making America great again' mean 'being beholden to countries like Russia, China, and North Korea'? Because if you're okay with them meddling in our affairs (and the affairs of other 1st-world countries) then that's what you're advocating. There's a word for that: TREASON. Get correct, Trump supporter. If your own party has to cheat in order to stay in power, then you're no better than all the corrupt shit-hole countries you hate so much. Or I suppose you can keep supporting people who keep doing things that help tear down the United States not only as a nation, but as a concept.
..and now will come the inevitable insults, baseless claims of being a butthurt Clinton supporter, and so on.
Get your own shit correct before you attack me.
The dyed-in-the-wool fucktarded Trump supporters are so blinded by their desire to "stick it to the Libtards" that they don't give a flying fuck what it does to the United States as a nation, or it's reputation on the World stage, or as a concept, so long as they get what they think they want, and screw the long-term consequences. "Get all the black brown and yellow n*ggers out of the country, and put women back in their place, so the Great White Male can have his Rightful Place" is all they care about, and they don't give a fuck how they get it.
You clearly didn't even read past the first five words of my comment, did you? I never even used the word 'Facebook', now did I? Shut the fuck up, Trump supporter, until you GET CORRECT. Tired of you fucktards and your 'MAGA' bullshit. The entire Administration is more corrupt than it's ever been; the so-called 'swamp' has been replaced by a CESSPOOL. I wasn't even a Democrat until a few months ago, that is what you jackasses and the Pussygrabber-in-Chief has driven me to. So fuck off.