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.

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Re:I'm not so sure

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Bugger all happened in 2016, that is the actual evidence. Trolling advertisements, click bait got quite corruptly called political, when it fact it most definitely is not. It simply targets politics to get you to click it, to take you to the actual ad.

The only corruption that occurred was at establishment level, primaries stolen, polling booths shut down queues long enough to stop people voting and then they are blamed, registered voters selectively de-registered to get rid of their vote, vote count tampering upon a mass scale targeted at the Greens and the Libertarian party to favour Republicans and Democrats, voter ID laws designed to stop people voting, google cooked search results to favour their candidate, facebook cooked the news stream to favour their candidates, corporations basically ran rough shod over the election with mass bribery obscured as caimpagn donations, the democrats defrauded caimpagn donations to funnel them to the Klinton Krime Klan, corporate controlled main stream media silenced the opposition and hugely favoured establishment candidates. Pretty much the US elections were entirely corrupt.

Ohh sorry I made a mistake, all of that is A OK with you and people trolling that corruption should be killed with a missile strike from a drone, which is what US politicians said should happen. Now it's do as we say or we will kill you. Either every country in the world allows US corporations to pillage their resources and enslave the populations or the US military will invade and kill as many as necessary to destroy your country. Hell, they say it out loud now, like it is OK, wow are they going to be in for a shock.

So the message now is, dare to interfere with the corruption of the US electoral process, dare to deny corporations total control of the electoral process and we will destroy you. You seem more concerned with maintaining the masquerade of democracy than tackling the corruption.