Can Facebook stop election interference?
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:35.0 | For 4 years, |
| 0:41.0 | for 4 years, Facebook has faced scrutiny over its handling of the 2016 presidential election. |
| 0:47.0 | So this time around, is the company fairing any better? |
| 0:51.0 | Recode reporter Shreen GafE is with me here to discuss. |
| 0:54.2 | Hey, Shreen. |
| 0:55.2 | Hey. |
| 0:56.2 | Facebook puts out this big announcement recently about all the things they're doing to keep |
| 0:59.3 | the election safe. |
| 1:00.9 | What actually are they doing? So Facebook is doing a couple of things in this move to try to limit election chaos, they say. |
| 1:08.0 | And one of them, the biggest thing is that they are going to stop any kind of new political ad in the week |
| 1:14.6 | before the actual election and the idea there is that this way no candidates no |
| 1:20.4 | campaigns can put up some blatantly false, you know, or sneer campaign or |
| 1:26.6 | whatever that could you change people's minds in a manipulated or |
| 1:31.2 | untruthful way. |
| 1:33.1 | They're also going to carve out some certain areas |
| 1:36.0 | of lies about voting that they will actually take down. |
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