With frequent data-leakage scandals and rumors spreading on the social networking site Facebook has established a special project to combat interference in elections and reduce the false news called the war room.
The war room is a major part of the ongoing reforms on the Facebook platform, after the big lesson Facebook has received since the US election two years ago, and seeks to ensure that it is not hacked again.
The room adopts a technology based on artificial intelligence that Facebook says it is building to determine the wrong behavior and control any participation that is widespread.
Since its creation last year, more than a billion fake accounts have been removed and hundreds of pages created by foreign governments and other agencies looking to create harm have been abandoned.
"We have already made tremendous progress in artificial intelligence and automated learning, and we have been able to prevent, in the last six months, 1.3 billion fake accounts, which is very important because we were able to ban counterfeit accounts at the moment when Created. "
"We were able to stop them before they could do any harm. More than 20 different teams have coordinated the efforts of more than 20,000 people who are focusing on closing fake accounts and stopping any other abuses on Facebook and other services like Entergram and Watts."
"We watch things internally, like reports from users of election-related content that violate our community standards, such as hate speech or voter suppression," said Lixie Stirdy, director of the war room for the elections.
The war room is not only related to technology, but also to the competencies of people from different fields. It includes a selection of Facebook employees from disciplines such as engineering, data science, public policy and other fields of work, which will help Facebook make quick and decisive decisions.
But it is still unclear whether Facebook is doing enough, said Angelo Carroson, president of Media Matters for America, a liberal group that monitors misinformation, noting that exciting topics in news stories Imaginary can be very effective in keeping people "involved" on Facebook - this in turn allows the sale of more ads that generate the most revenue from the site.
