Facebook ’s so - called “ War Room , ” the office it set up with some monitor and staff to purportedly fight propaganda and disinformation during election or at leastfight the perceptionit was n’t doing that , has been shuttered — in that form , anyhow .
Per areport in Bloombergon Monday on the many scandals border the company ’s embattle chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg , Facebook aver it was shift from operate a War Room per se to operating on “ War Room tactics . ” What that means is , honestly , ill-defined , other than that the company “ has not yet adjudicate which elections are significant enough ” to warrant put some people in the same room :
Two months ago , Facebook show off a “ War Room ” that bring employees from different team together to speedily fleck and fix issuing like misinformation during the U.S. midterm exam elections . At the time , the caller said the War Room might be deployed for next elections . But it ’s been disbanded . Facebook says it was never intended to be lasting , and the troupe is still assessing what is needed for succeeding election .
In a furtherstatement to TechCrunch , Facebook say that “ Our warfare room cause is focused specifically on elections - related upshot and is designed to rapidly answer to threats such as voter curtailment efforts and civil - related misinformation . It was an in force effort during the recent U.S. and Brazil elections , and we are plan to amplify the effort going forward for elections around the globe . ” Elsewhere , Facebook VP of product Guy Rosen tweeted that the company plans on actually expanding its anti - propaganda cause , even if the physical way itself is presently empty .
The war way will be functional ahead of major events , and it still stands . It was effective for our study in both the Brazil and US elections which is why it ’s going to be expanded , not disbanded .
— Guy Rosen ( @guyro)November 26 , 2018
Facebook is currently maturate with controversy surrounding not just the manipulation of its platforms ( include foot soldier like inscribe chat service WhatsApp ) to spread hoax news , propaganda , and unnumerable agitprop forpolitical purposes , but also itshandling of drug user dataandill - notify campaignsagainst critics like billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros . While the War Room earned it some favourable coverage at a time when even internal esprit de corps isreportedly not so live , it does n’t seem to havedone very wellin Brazil , and arecent reportin Rolling Stone highlighted a growing perception that Facebook ’s effort have been arbitrary responses to away political pressure .
In other words , Facebook ’s sprawling global enlargement may have leave it too with child and chaotic , the problem too many and complicated , and the potential repercussion too vexation - inducing , for any real resolution to be on the horizon .
CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly recentlytold employeesthat the company is “ at war , ” and though against who and to achieve what objectives progressively seems to calculate on what day of the hebdomad it is , co - opting military buzzwords seems to be a big part of the scheme . Per Bloomberg , a Facebook spokesperson touted yet another solution , a “ strategical response team ” that would bring crises to Sandberg ’s attending before they corkscrew out of ascendence .
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