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Facebook and Instagram canceled 2.2 million ads and removed 120,000 posts from their sites, as part of efforts to counter attempts to influence American voters ahead of the US elections scheduled for November 3.
Facebook deputy editor Nick Clegg said in an interview published on Sunday by the newspaper “Le Gonale de Dimanche” that “2.2 million ads were canceled” and “120,000 posts were removed from Facebook and Instagram” in the context of “an attempt to obstruct participation in the US presidential elections.”
Clegg explained that “there are 35 thousand employees participating in the security of our platforms and participating in the elections. We will establish alliances with 70 specialized media, five of them in France, to verify the information.” “We also have artificial intelligence tools. They are allowed to remove fake posts and accounts, even before users report them,” he added.
For months, Facebook has stepped up its efforts to prevent a repeat of what happened in 2016, when it used its social network in Russia’s large-scale electoral rigging during the US presidential elections and the Brexit referendum.
The company found a link between those pages and the accounts and a marketing company called “Raleigh Forge” that works for the organization “Torning Point USA”, which seeks to mobilize student support for Donald Trump, especially in states that tend to witness narrow election results among presidential candidates.
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