How WhatsApp is undermining Facebook’s war on election interference

How WhatsApp is undermining Facebook’s war on election interference

6 years ago
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/17997516/facebook-election-war-room-brazil-whatsapp

About a month ago, the New York Times revealed the existence of a conference room inside of Facebook devoted to fighting election interference. But this was no ordinary conference room ... this was a war room. Then under construction, the war room promised to provide a hub for all of Facebook’s efforts to fight election interference around the world. At the time, I mentioned that I would be amenable to visiting the war room, should an opportunity ever present itself.

On Wednesday morning, I joined a couple dozen or so other reporters at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, and after an introductory briefing about the purpose of the war room, got to poke my head inside: