Facebook, Twitter, Google and others to fulfill about midterm elections, report states

Representatives from the most significant business in tech will fulfill independently Friday to share details on how they’re getting ready for the midterm election, Buzzfeed reported lateThursday The objective of the conference obviously is to attempt to prevent a repeat of the Russian disturbance that took place throughout the 2016 United States election.

Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, called the conference, welcoming agents from a lots business, consisting of Google, Microsoft and Snapchat, to a conference at Twitter’s head office in downtown San Francisco, Buzzfeed reported, pointing out an e-mail it had actually acquired.

“As I’ve mentioned to several of you over the last few weeks, we have been looking to schedule a follow-on discussion to our industry conversation about information operations, election protection, and the work we are all doing to tackle these challenges,” Gleicher supposedly composed in the e-mail.

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The meeting’s agenda, according to the email, will address each company’s strategy to counter disinformation campaigns, the challenges each company faces, and discuss whether further, regularly scheduled meetings on the topic are warranted.

Facebook, along with Twitter and Google, have been scrutinized by Congress over the past year after US intelligence agencies determined that the Russian government had used these platforms to disseminate false news and advertisements in an attempt to influence US elections in 2016.

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, the big tech companies have gone into crisis mode to secure their platforms. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been candid that Facebook just wasn’t looking out for the right vulnerabilities.

Representatives from Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oath, Snap and Twitter, met in May with representatives of the US intelligence community to discuss preparations for the midterm elections. But the meeting’s atmosphere was described as tense and the sharing of information was one-sided, with tech companies reportedly presenting what they knew but receiving little if any information in return from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

Facebook and Twitter didn’t immediate respond to requests for comment.

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