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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.
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There seems to be an awful lot of people who have become "butthurt" before the election has even taken place.
This is interesting because I'm pretty sure these are the same people who have repeated "Hillary lost, get over it" and denigrated their political counterparts for being "snowflakes" for the last two years. It's become painfully clear that these people are projecting their own issues onto others which mean they don't really believe "their" victory was legitimate and they are in fact in a fragile state ("snowflakes").
It was confirmed before the 2016 elections took place that there was blatant interference from Russian state-actors by the US intelligence agencies (who until after the election) were considered impartial by everyone (until their conclusions came into conflict with beliefs of "snowflakes").
In the mean time, control of 2/3 of the US government has been in hands of one political party and they've absolutely wrecked the place and international standing of the US. Many have seen this happening and so a strong rebuke from voters is imminent. Meanwhile Russian actors are continuing their campaign of interference and this time social media is going to act to counter it as well as they can. These "snowflakes" see the backlash coming and have prepared for a psychologically devastating comeuppance so they are already dismissing the election results before there has even been an election. The reality is that these social media companies are doing what they should have done previously and are countering the Russian interference campaign.
To all of the "snowflakes," I'm not sorry for what is about to happen because you have enabled all the wrong people to lead our government. I don't mind if "you" win elections but I do mind if the elected do not uphold their oath of office by failing to perform their duties.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Because the investigation is going so long means they do not have traction on the case....
That a 'special prosecutor' had to be appointed is of no consequence to you? Why don't we have a 'super-special prosecutor' to investigate why the 'special prosecutor' is taking so long?
>the fact that the Russians are actively posing as western citizens and pumping out propaganda
According to who? Where is the evidence? Where are the examples? To what degree is this happening? Why is it important? Is it effective? How so?
There are a million questions unanswered but you decided to care about it anyway because you're a brainwashed drone.