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FacebookArray needs you to know that it is taking strong action against attempts to interfere with voting in the 2020 US election. Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg told the Journal du Dimanche in an interview (through The Guardian and AFP) that Facebook had disposed of 120,000 posts on its online page and Instagram aimed at “obstructing voting” in the presidential election. The social network also rejected 2. 2 million classified ads that did not authorize the authorization process, Clegg added.
The executive took advantage of the chat to announce the length of the Facebook team. There are 35,000 other people concerned about security, Clegg said, and partnerships with 70 specialized media interested in data verification.
Knowledge recommends that they have been given to deprive the U. S. electorate of their right to vote, although it is not known how many of them came here for campaigns of foreign interference in relation to domestic groups, which stands in strong contrast to 2016, when disinformation campaigns were unhindered.
Whether it does everything it can or can’t, that’s another issue: Facebook has been criticized for allowing politicians to lie in ads (until election night) and has been accused of ignoring fact-checkers to appease politicians and their supporters. in 2020 than four years earlier, however, there is no guarantee that attempts at electoral interference will not fail.
Update 19/10 at 8:20 AM ET: Liz Bourgeois of Facebook said the interview (which was a paywall) had been “lost in translation”. First, it was reported that the 2. 2 million classified ads were rejected for obstructing the vote, but were in fact rejected for not completing the authorization process. We have updated our article to reflect this.