Facebook to create 'war room' to fight fake news, Nick Clegg says

[AtW]

Facebook will tackle political misinformation in the run-up to the EU elections this May with a new “war room” based in Dublin, the company’s incoming communications chief, Nick Clegg, has announced.

In his first speech as Facebook’s top public face, Clegg said the company would be setting up an “operations centre focused on elections integrity, based in Dublin, this spring”. The centre will build on the company’s previous experience running an “elections war room” in its US office, where it coordinated efforts to police the platform during the US midterm and Brazilian presidential elections.

“This approach will help boost our rapid response efforts to fight misinformation, bringing together dozens of experts from across the company – including from our threat intelligence, data science, engineering, research, community operations and legal teams,” Clegg said.

Facebook to create 'war room' to fight fake news, Nick Clegg says | Technology | The Guardian

Simple solution - block links to known fake news sites such as RT.com, Breitbart, Daily Mail etc

[AtW]

And auto ban posters who post links, such as RT.com

[TwoWolves]

Who would have thought that the face of Big Brother would turn out to be... Nick Clegg (he was so cuddly and harmless looking in those sweaters).

Is he going to remind us once again that there will be no EU army?

Nick Clegg: EU army is a 'dangerous fantasy' | PoliticsHome.com

Life has become satire.

[Platypus]

EU elections... who cares? No need to police fake news here, it's all BS

[original PM]

Facebook will tackle political misinformation in the run-up to the EU elections this May with a new “war room” based in Dublin, the company’s incoming communications chief, Nick Clegg, has announced.

In his first speech as Facebook’s top public face, Clegg said the company would be setting up an “operations centre focused on elections integrity, based in Dublin, this spring”. The centre will build on the company’s previous experience running an “elections war room” in its US office, where it coordinated efforts to police the platform during the US midterm and Brazilian presidential elections.

“This approach will help boost our rapid response efforts to fight misinformation, bringing together dozens of experts from across the company – including from our threat intelligence, data science, engineering, research, community operations and legal teams,” Clegg said.

Facebook to create 'war room' to fight fake news, Nick Clegg says | Technology | The Guardian

Simple solution - block links to known fake news sites such as RT.com, Breitbart, Daily Mail etc

The problem with all of this is - someone is deciding what is fake news and what is not - and he who pay the piper calls the tune.

It is almost now expected that money is plowed into the media to support someone's propaganda.

It is not a good direction to be heading in.

[NickFitz]

They opened a "war room” before: Bracing for the midterms, Facebook builds a 'war room' - CNN

Then they shut it down again: Facebook shutters election interference 'war room' for now

Though they also said they hadn’t really shut it down, they’d just given all the staff other things to do: Facebook denies report that election war room was disbanded – TechCrunch

[Jog On]

They opened a "war room” before: Bracing for the midterms, Facebook builds a 'war room' - CNN

Then they shut it down again: Facebook shutters election interference 'war room' for now

Though they also said they hadn’t really shut it down, they’d just given all the staff other things to do: Facebook denies report that election war room was disbanded – TechCrunch

2020 is not far off so I'd be surprised if they didn't keep it going.