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

as mentioned in 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". Clegg added that Facebook would soon be publishing a draft charter for the board and opening it up to input from experts. "The Brexit drama will soon move to – and possibly culminate in – the place where it arguably belonged all along, in parliament. I will no longer seek to play a public role in that debate," he wrote in a Guardian article explaining his decision.

Facebook finds and kills another 512 Kremlin-linked fake accounts

Two years on from the U.S. presidential election, Facebook continues to have a major problem with Russian disinformation being megaphoned via its social tools. In all Facebook says it removed 289 Pages and 75 Facebook accounts associated with this Russian disop; adding that around 790,000 accounts followed one or more of the removed Pages. Ukraine tip-offIn the case of the Ukraine-targeted Russian disop, Facebook says it removed a total of 107 Facebook Pages, Groups, and accounts, and 41 Instagram accounts, specifying that it was acting on an initial tip off from U.S. law enforcement. In all it says around 180,000 Facebook accounts were following one or more of the removed pages. While the fake Instagram accounts were being followed by more than 55,000 accounts.

Facebook slams report from Zuckerberg's old Harvard classmate claiming half its users are fake

as declared in Facebook categorically rejected a new study that claims more than half of its 2.2 billion users are fake. "The fact of the matter is that Facebook does not know and will not ever have an accurate way to measure its fake account problem," the report claims. "Taking all of these factors into account, we estimate that 50 percent or more of Facebook's current MAUs are actually fake." Therefore, a report claiming that brands are throwing money away on fake users is likely to ruffle feathers in Menlo Park, Calif.MARK ZUCKERBERG COULD HAVE A CULT-LIKE FOLLOWING, SURVEY HINTSFacebook pushed back against the report. According to the financial services site Seeking Alpha, Facebook's shares fell after Greenspan's report was issued on Jan. 24.

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