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Facebook Building “War Room” to Monitor Midterm Elections in Real Time
PlanetFreeWill.com ^ | 9/4/18 | Joseph Jankowski

Posted on 09/04/2018 7:50:55 PM PDT by PFW

Facebook is gearing up for the upcoming midterm elections by building a physical “war room” in order to fight off “bad actors” who wish to influence voters.

Facebook’s head of civic engagement, Samidh Chakrabarti, told NBC in an interview published Tuesday that the company was in a better place than it was in 2016 in regards to fighting “misinformation” and “fake news.”

“I think we are in a much better place than we were in 2016. But it is an arms race. And so that’s why we’re remaining ever vigilant, laser-focused to make sure that we can stay ahead of new problems that emerge,” Chakrabarti said.

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1 posted on 09/04/2018 7:50:56 PM PDT by PFW
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Facebook fighting?

Sounds violent.


2 posted on 09/04/2018 7:52:21 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Meddling


3 posted on 09/04/2018 7:53:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Click The Pic

4 posted on 09/04/2018 7:53:49 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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Oooooooooh! Lefties be buildin’ a “war room.” The Beta males be all militant now.


5 posted on 09/04/2018 7:57:33 PM PDT by RocketMan1
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That is criminal intent to influence the election, in the name of fighting a fictional outside enemy.


6 posted on 09/04/2018 7:58:05 PM PDT by tbw2
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Russia, Russia, Russia....

The new ManBearPig.


7 posted on 09/04/2018 8:00:36 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful?)
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Facebook’s head of civic engagement, Samidh Chakrabarti, told NBC in an interview published Tuesday that the company was in a better place than it was in 2016 in regards to fighting “misinformation” and “fake news.”

Are they kidding? They are colluding with fake news!


8 posted on 09/04/2018 8:02:00 PM PDT by Bommer (Help out 2ndDivisionVet and his wife - https://www.gofundme.com/married-recent-amputees)
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Do they really think they can block CNN from creating fake news. The liberal news media tried to influnce the elections and Trump won. This is truly unbelievable.


9 posted on 09/04/2018 8:05:29 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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They just want to be able to control the narrative as they see fit.


10 posted on 09/04/2018 8:11:23 PM PDT by setha (England: Once great, now lost to the Diversity Deviants & Mohammedans.)
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“Facebook is gearing up for the upcoming midterm elections by building a physical “war room”...”

Aren’t the geeks intelligent enough to program a virtual “war room”?


11 posted on 09/04/2018 8:12:00 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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Realtime lying propaganda.


12 posted on 09/04/2018 8:17:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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This is just censorship. It’s what dictatorships do. There’s nothing new under the sun.


13 posted on 09/04/2018 8:25:31 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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The Left have everything - they own academia, they own the news media, they own entertainment media, they own sports media, they own big corporations in large part (Nike today for example).. and now social media is officially aligning with the Left - disguised as fake news monitoring. But it’s still not going to be enough.


14 posted on 09/04/2018 8:25:34 PM PDT by libh8er
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"That is criminal intent to influence the election, in the name of fighting a fictional outside enemy. CENSORING CONSERVATIVES."

There. Fixed it.

15 posted on 09/04/2018 8:32:54 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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I think you’re mistaken. It is most likely they want to help CNN with sharing the Fake News. LOL


16 posted on 09/04/2018 8:36:15 PM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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What kind of company does Facebook consider itself????


17 posted on 09/04/2018 8:36:58 PM PDT by PGR88
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“This is blue leader, republicans are gaining in the polls, initiate advanced censorship of their supporters and proceed with misinformation protocols”.


18 posted on 09/04/2018 8:40:11 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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‘Monitor’ or influence?


19 posted on 09/04/2018 8:42:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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PhakeBooks war is against American Patriots it seems

So phuck them.


20 posted on 09/04/2018 8:42:25 PM PDT by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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