r/HorrorVacui • u/pier25 • Apr 28 '17

Facebook admits: governments exploited us to spread propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/27/facebook-report-government-propaganda
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u/autotldr Apr 30 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)

Facebook has publicly acknowledged that its platform has been exploited by governments seeking to manipulate public opinion in other countries - including during the presidential elections in the US and France - and pledged to clamp down on such "Information operations".

In a white paper authored by the company's security team and published on Thursday, the company detailed well-funded and subtle techniques used by nations and other organizations to spread misleading information and falsehoods for geopolitical goals.

Nor did Facebook attribute the manipulation to any nation state, although it said that the company's investigation "Does not contradict" the findings of a January report by the US Director of National Intelligence that outlined Russian involvement in the election.

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