{"id":9668,"date":"2017-10-19T01:18:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T01:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebooks-response-to-russian-election-interference-bad-things-happen.html"},"modified":"2017-10-19T01:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T01:18:17","slug":"facebooks-response-to-russian-election-interference-bad-things-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebooks-response-to-russian-election-interference-bad-things-happen.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s response to Russian election interference: \u2018Bad things happen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Facebook has come under fire for its role in influencing the U.S. presidential election, particularly when it comes to \u201cfake news\u201d and Russian-sponsored ads.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

When asked about this at WSJ D.Live in Laguna Beach on Wednesday, Facebook VP David Marcus at first deflected, talking at length about all the positive impacts that the social media giant has had on the world. \u201cWhen you design a platform that reaches 2 billion people every month\u2026sometimes bad things happen,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Marcus said that Facebook is \u201ccollaborating with special counsel and Congress\u201d to help evaluate Russia\u2019s use of the platform for U.S. politics. He says it\u2019s a priority of the company to \u201cmake sure that we build systems to prevent what happened from happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus oversees the Facebook Messenger platform and acknowledged that a \u201csmall number\u201d of Russian-related incidents happened on the messenger service, but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

He says that going forward, \u201cwe\u2019re going to hire thousands of people to review ads and review all activities around notable elections around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus added that while \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as perfection,\u201d he\u2019s \u201cabsolutely confident that we have the right plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Featured Image: Mikhail Metzel\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

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