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Before Senate Facebook, Twitter Defend Efforts to Stop Fake News

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Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2018-09-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Elizabeth Montalbano

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Facebook and Twitter executives testified before the U.S. Senate about prior state-sponsored influence operations—including thousands of ads tied to Russian information campaigns—acknowledging failures during the 2016 election and describing steps taken (doubling safety staff, ML/AI detection, removing fake accounts, ad transparency, third-party auditors) to detect and mitigate bots, coordinated inauthentic behavior and misinformation while lawmakers discussed liability, transparency and potential regulation.

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