Facebook Denies It Knew Of Russian Propaganda Before Public Exposé

Facebook on Thursday denied The New York Times report that suggested that the social network was aware of a Russian entrada designed to influence the 2016 Usa presidential election every bit early as spring of 2016.

"In the terminal months of Mr. (Donald) Trump'south presidential campaign, Russian agents escalated a yearlong effort to hack and harass his Democratic opponents, culminating in the release of thousands of emails stolen from prominent Democrats and political party officials," said the Times report on Wednesday.

"Facebook had said nothing publicly about any problems on its own platform. But in the jump of 2016, a company expert on Russian cyberwarfare spotted something worrisome," the report added.

Facebook starting time disclosed about its findings on Russian activities but September 6, 2017, information technology added. Denying that Facebook was tedious to investigate the Russian interference, it pointed out what the social network's CEO Mark Zuckerberg later told the US Congress.

"Leading up to Election Day in Nov 2016, nosotros detected and dealt with several threats with ties to Russia … [including] a group called APT28 … we also saw some new behaviour when APT28-related accounts, nether the imprint of DC Leaks, created fake personas that were used to seed stolen information to journalists. We shut these accounts down for violating our policies," Zuckerberg had said.

Facebook said in a statement that it had already acknowledged publicly on many occasions – including earlier Congress – that it was too tedious to spot Russian interference on Facebook, as well as other misuse.

"Just in the two years since the 2016 Presidential election, we've invested heavily in more people and better technology to amend safety and security on our services.

"While we notwithstanding have a long way to get, nosotros're proud of the progress we have fabricated in fighting misinformation, removing bad content and preventing foreign actors from manipulating our platform," the argument added.

Responding to the criticism of Facebook's decision on keeping a mail service in which Trump chosen for a "total and complete shutdown" on Muslims entering the United states, Facebook said the post remained because it did not pause the company's Customs Standards "for the aforementioned reasons The New York Times and many other organisations covered the news: Donald Trump was a candidate running for role."

"To advise that the internal argue around this particular case was different from other of import free speech issues on Facebook is wrong," Facebook said.

Facebook said that it used the consultant Definers Public Affairs to wait into the funding of "Freedom from Facebook" to demonstrate that it was non simply a spontaneous grassroots entrada, as it claimed, "but supported by a well-known critic of our company," presumably liberal financier George Soros.

"To suggest that this was an anti-Semitic set on is reprehensible and untrue," the company said.

Source: https://beebom.com/facebook-russian-propaganda-knowledge-denial/

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