Facebook has a four-part plan to protect its platform from malicious attacks during the 2018 US midterm elections, company executives said today. In a conference call with reporters, representatives from Facebook’s security, product, and advertising teams laid out their strategy for preventing the kinds of problems that plagued it during the 2016 campaign. While most bad actors are motivated by profits, executives said, state-sponsored attackers continue in their efforts to manipulate public opinion using posts on Facebook.
Here’s Facebook’s plan to shore up its security over the next several months.
1. Fighting foreign interference. Executives pointed to the FBI’s creation of a task force to monitor social media as an important step to...
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