War Room: Housed between building 20 and building 21 in its heart Facebook campus, a meeting room is under construction.
Cables hang from the ceiling, ready to be attached to 16 desktop computer screens. On the wall, there are many TVs ready to tune in to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other major networks. A small sign glued to the glass door describes what is being made: "War Room" or "War Room."
From next weekteam the venue will be Facebook's election assurance headquarters. More than 300 people across the company are working on the election, but the War Room will house a team of about 20 people that will focus on eliminating misinformation, monitoring fake news and deleting fake accounts that might try to influence voters before elections in the United States, Brazil and other countries.
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“Perhaps the biggest reorientation of the company since our transition from desktops to mobile phones", said Samidh Chakrabarti, who heads the Facebook election department and the main political engagement team.
Facebook's misuse of the past elections did not leave too much room. In July and August, the company analyzed Iranian and Russian attempts to mislead users of the social network. Now, with the upcoming elections in the United States (in about seven weeks), Facebook is trying to convince the world that everything will go fine because it is ready to handle any new attempts to intervene in the elections.
Mark Zuckerberg, διευθύνων σύμβουλος του Facebook, δεσμεύθηκε να διορθώσει κάθε προβλήματα και δήλωσε ότι η εταιρεία θα είναι “καλύτερα προετοιμασμένη” για να χειριστεί κάθε πιθανή παρέμβαση. Η εταιρεία φέρεται να έχει λάβει μέτρα για να αποτρέψει Spammers, hackers και ξένους πράκτορες. Ανάμεσα σε αυτά τα μέτρα είναι και οι προσλήψεις χιλιάδων ανθρώπων που θα παρακολουθούν το κάθε περιεχόμενο, και ουσιαστικά θα καταγράφουν όλες τις πολιτικές διαφημίσεις.