“This is going to be a big year for elections in the US, India, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan and others,” Mark Zuckerberg said.
After the massive Facebook Data leak involving the Data mining giant Cambridge Analytica Facebook is taking steps in direction of improving its safety features. The founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said that the Facebook will be using Artificial Intelligence along with the number of employees to work on the data security feature. He also added that the company will focus on protecting the upcoming elections in several countries, including India.
Zuckerberg said that the Facebook was successful in removing the Macedonian trolls trying to spread information US Senate Alabama special election last year with the help of AI. “Now, we have about 15,000 people working on security and content review. We will have more than 20,000 by the end of this year,” Zuckerberg claimed.
He said that in 2018, the major focus of the company will be data security ahead of elections in several countries. “This is going to be a big year for elections ahead with the US midterms and elections in India, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan, Hungary and others,” he said.
Mark Zuckerberg also recounted that after 2016 American Presidential Elections the company started focusing on other major elections including French Presidential Election and German Elections. “We deployed some new AI tools that took down more than 30,000 fake accounts during French Presidential Elections,” he said.
He highlighted that there are three main activities that need different strategies. He said there are Economic actors, who are basically spammers; the second are governments trying to interfere in elections, and then the third is just polarisation. Zuckerberg proposed that the company will crack down on their economic part i.e. revenue from Facebook Ad network.
A day earlier, Zuckerberg said Facebook had taken big steps by taking down Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) pages that were targeting the US.
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