{"id":38039,"date":"2018-09-20T18:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T23:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38039"},"modified":"2018-09-20T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T23:38:57","slug":"facebook-plans-war-room-and-a-i-software-to-prevent-election-meddling-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38039","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Plans “War Room” And A.I. Software To Prevent Election Meddling Ahead Of Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook Plans “War Room” And A.I. Software To Prevent Election Meddling Ahead Of Midterms<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Apparently Facebook thinks it’s\u00a0the US military, or a NATO command center, or perhaps its millennial employees want to relive the 1980’s cult classic “WarGames”<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n

Facebook announced Wednesday that it plans to set up a “war room” at its Silicon Valley campus to prevent potential foreign election meddling during the midterms.<\/p>\n

“We are setting up a war room in Menlo Park for the Brazil and US elections,”<\/strong>Facebook elections and civic engagement director Samidh Chakrabarti said, according to the AFP.<\/a>\u00a0He added, “It is going to serve as a command center so we can make real-time decisions as needed.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A “command center” in a “war room” to make “real-time” decisions huh?… And oh Facebook says it will gain help<\/a> from artificial intelligence software<\/strong> to prevent fake posts by those pesky Russians to boot…<\/p>\n

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Apparently office space for the planned anti-election meddling HQ has already been set aside as Facebook says it’s still in the procession of “building” this war room.<\/p>\n

But the AFP reports this incredibly amusing detail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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He declined to say when the “war room” — currently a conference room with a paper sign taped to the door<\/strong> — would be in operation.<\/p>\n

Teams at Facebook have been honing responses to potential scenarios such as floods of bogus news or campaigns to trick people into falsely thinking they can cast ballots by text message, according to executives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don’t worry America your elections are safe with Facebook on watch at the forward operating post! Though likely\u00a0a conference room with paper taped to the door won’t exactly convey confidence and readiness to the American public.<\/p>\n

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