Facebook: 'We’re willing to give up profitability' for election integrity

Facebook's security and product leads have been acting globally in the company's effort to regain user trust and protect the integrity of elections worldwide. The world's largest social network cannot take back what occurred on its platform during the 2016 presidential election, but the team has been trying to prevent bad actors, like Russian trolls, from using Facebook to nefariously affect election results in the future. 

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"It's really important for us while we're solving the problems of the 2016 election that we're not getting tunnel vision there," Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos told reporters on Thursday. "We don't just want to be fighting the last war." Read more...

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