in the newly furnished war room facebook employees are fighting fake news and this war room brings together experts including engineers including data scientists including threat intelligence investigators including operational specialists and all of them work together to be able to detect if there are any sort of late breaking issues and respond in real time to any issues that may arise. lexy sturdy leads the war room. last week the monitors were following posts related to the elections in brazil. is. ok to have the normal trend of what a day in brazil or the u.s. should look like on facebook and if there's any anomaly it have that it will send a letter to all of us who will look into it. u.s. authorities say foreign powers used facebook to manipulate the twenty sixteen u.s. elections now the company is on the p.r. offensive to show it is taking america's vital mid-term elections next. and very seriously but many critics say that facebook has a lot more to do. and that was your business week in review. it may be. time for an upgrade. how about furniture that grows on buying. a house with n

according to facebook their new war room is designed to prevent election meddling both in the u.s. and brazil results at least one point three billion accounts have been removed while the company says these were all fake accounts some facebook users are questioning to help these were done actions are but nonetheless the war room is a major part of facebook wanting to repair itself the technology utilizes artificial intelligence that facebook says has been antic behavior we have actually made huge advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning and we've been able to block in the recent six month period one point three billion fake accounts from for me in addition to the ai there are some twenty teams working to shut down fake accounts and other abuses on facebook this includes fact checkers and even members of the associated press so internally we're monitoring things such as reports from users of election related content that either violates our community standards such as heat speech or voter suppression interestingly enough in addition to the u.s. midterm elections on no

that is 20,000 strong, we got one of the first looks inside a so-called war room to combat the war on democracy. this is facebook'slection war room. the nerve center of the social ,etwork's election interference where teams of engineers, cyber policy, and the data specialists are patrolling for fake news, misinformation, and meddling. what is happening here right now? >> we have experts from across the company. they are looking at dashboards and seeing if there is any spike in content that could be related to voter suppression and prevent any of it from going viral. emily: the war room did not exist in 2016. in fact, facebook executives seem to be in denial the social network could influence the u.s. presidential election at all. >> personally, i think the idea that fake news on facebook, of which it is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in a way is a pretty crazy idea. emily: but in the last two years, it has become clear that russia weaponize they spoke with the expressed purpose of sending u.s. elections into turmoil. facebook apologized for not hedging it and committed massive resource

. >>> inside the facebook war room and the headquarters in menlo park. >> behind me is the war room. the facebook election war room. dozens weeding out fake accounts. bogus news story and block those who want to sway the mid- terms. >> west made massivchanges.unde scrutiny after it emerged that russia used the platform to target americans. >> these people respect teams such as operation, data scientist and research. we come in as extreme line -- streamline. >> it has invested in artificial intelligence and former intelligence officials and new rules for political advertising all to tackle a crisis. >> we've reduced click bait. and all these things have reduced the spread of fake news. >> the company is making progress. in august they are moved a network of russian linked pages and blocked a billion fact accounts from forming. >>> president trump is threat being to withhold federal assistance from california because of the wildfires. >> old trees are rotting and dry, instead of cleaning it up they leave them. we have the fires we're paying to fix and the destruction is incredible. >>

nbc's jo ling kent takes us inside facebook's war room. >> reporter: the drive to protect the midterm election is in high gear at facebook. >> welcome to the war room. >> thank you. >> reporter: the world's biggest social network is mounting a coordinated war against false news and hacking in the final two weeks before election day. >> we want to be as quick and agile as we can here. all of these things help us really prevent problems before they can become viral. >> russia, russia, russia. >> reporter: the hope? prevent another 2016 disaster, when the company allowed russian interference to spread, hitting its share price and reputation. >> one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in 2016. >> reporter: facebook claims the investment is paying off, saying it's found accounts from russia, iran, and inside the u.s., targeting users in recent months. reddit, another powerful social network, is in the fight, too. is reddit ready for midterms? >> i think so. i think so. >> reporter: reddit is a breeding ground

there has been so much attention on this, and sheryl sandberg the other day was posting on facebook photos of war roomacebook has for their election integrity unit. do they have their hands around this problem? >> it's a really nice pr move to do that. they brought in all kinds of journalists if you saw 100 articles about the war room. it's just a room full of computers. >> with screens there are monitors as well. >> yes, exactly. and maybe some keyboards. you know, i think the thing is, they want to show that they're committed to stopping this. but the fact is the bots have run wild all the time, on twitter, facebook, everywhere it can go. i think what's really interesting to think about is they're sort of bots for hire. during the roseanne thing, a lot of things were bots that started the problem and humans interact with it. bots get everything started and humans like you were talking to bots. >> i don't talk to them. i have a no bot policy. >> a no bot policy. but i think the issue is they want to start to sow discord. in the rosen thing there are bots creating problems around samantha b. whatever

we went to the newly created war room to see for ourselves. this is facebook's election war room.ocialve center of the networks election interference operations where teams of engineers, cyber, policy, and data specialists are patrolling for fake news. what is happening right here? >> we have experts from across the company, data scientists are seeing at dashboards and if there is anything that could be related to voter suppression. did nothe war room exist in 2016. facebook executives seemed to be in denial that the social network could have influenced the presidential election at all. >> personally, i think that the facebook fake news on of which it is a very small influencedontent, the election in any way i think it is a pretty crazy idea. emily: in the last two years, it has been made abundantly clear that russia has weaponize to facebook. facebook has apologized for not catching it and committed -- massive resources to come bob it -- to combat it but the behavior has continued. with midterm elections weeks away, facebook says activity is wrapping up in the majority of it is c

war on democracy. this is facebook's election war room. teams ofhere engineers, cyber policy, and the data specialists are patrolling for fake news, misinformation on meddling. what is happening here right now? >> experts from across the company are looking at e-sports and seeing if there is any spike in content that could be related to voter suppression and prevent any of it from going viral. emily: this room did not exist in 2016. facebook executives seem to be in denial the social network could influence the u.s. presidential election at all. >> personally, i think the idea facebook, ofs on which it is a very small part of the content, influenced the election and in a way is a pretty crazy idea. emily: it has become clear that russia weaponize facebook to send u.s. elections into turmoil. facebook apologized for not hedging it and committed massive resources to combat it. what facebook calls coordinated inauthentic behavior has continued from irish a -- from russia and iran. facebook says activity is ramping up in the majority is coming

we went to facebook's newly created war room to see for ourselves. is is facebook's election war room. the nerve center of the social network's election interference operations where teams of engineers, cyber, policy, and data specialists are patrolling for fake news. misinformation, and meddling. what is happening right here, right now? >> we have experts from across the company, data scientists are looking at dashboards and seeing if there is any kind of spike and content that could be related to voter suppression to prevent any of it from going viral. emily: the war room did not exist in 2016. in fact, facebook executives seemed to be in denial that the social network could have influenced the u.s. presidential election at all. >> personally, i think the idea that fake news on facebook, of which it is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way i think is a pretty crazy idea. emily: but in the last two years, it has been made abundantly clear that russia expertly weaponize facebook with the express purpose of sending the

about 24 facebook employees are working in a packed windowless room in california and they are leading that effort. that is a wars outside facebook's war room specifically. we have another 20,000 company employees flagging potential threats. intelligence forces say they are fighting dark forces from russia and iran. early voters are casting ballots. can you say that voters are less vulnerable to fake news on your site than they were two years ago given the massive dark forces that we might not be aware of at this point? >> absolutely. we're in a fundamentally different place now than we were two years ago. >> how do you know that? >> we spent the last two years doing really hard work. we made investments this people. we made the team 20,000 from 10,000. it help us be proactive of identifying these threats and taking action against them. we have seen independent research that have shown the amount of misinformation on facebook has decreased significantly. >> you spent and you have the results. in march we learned that 87 million users da was the improperly shared. in may facebook had to block 1.3 billion fake acc

giant is using to fight threats to election meddling. >> behind me is war room for the upcoming us midterm elections. >> this is the facebookries and block those who want to use facebook, instagram and what's apps to sway the midterms. >> massive investments to make sure our platforms are safe and secure for elections. >> reporter: the company has been under intense scrutiny from congress, the fed and the media after it emerged russian government leaked operatives used the platform to target americans during the 2016 presidential election. >> these people represent teams through intel operations, data scientists, research and streamlining communication and decision-making. >> facebook says it hired thousands of new moderators invested in artificial intelligence, enlisted the help of former us intelligence officials for political advertising. in an effort to tackle misinformation crisis. >> reduced click bay and ability for people to be successful on our platform and all these things have reduced the spread of fake news on our platform. >> the comedy making progress in august and russian linked pages and billion bank account

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facebook has been under scrutiny when it comes to policing content on its platforms. particularly around elections and misinformation. that causes the company to invest heavily in cybersecurity. a war roomd >> this is facebook's election war room. the nerve center of their election interference operations where teams of engineers and data specialists are patrolling for fake news and meddling. what is happening in the war room now? >> right here we have experts from across the company, and data scientists are looking at dashboards to see if there's any spike in content that could be related to voter suppression and prevent any of it from going viral. >> this to not exist in 2016. personally, i think the idea facebook, ofs on which it is a small amount of the contents influences the election in any way i think is a pretty crazy idea. >> in the last two years, it has been clear russia expertly weaponize facebook with the express purpose of sending u.s. elections into turmoil. facebook has apologized for not catching it and committed massive resources to combat it. what facebook calls coordinated inauthentic behavior has continued. not just from russia but from iran. with u.s. midterms week

facebook headquarters. they told us they're reasonably confident that this is going to go better than 2016. they've opened a war roomto that effect, showing us around. we wanted to show you inside. >> facebook is on offense, after facing fallout from fake news and hacking scandals. many users wondering just what can be trusted in our feeds, ahead of the midterm elections, just 19 days away. >> welcome to the war room. >> thank you. >> now the social media giant launching a new war room, so it can strike back. >> roughly -- >> reporter: we went behind downloads doors to see how it will work. the goal, prevent another 2016, when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, two dozen teams from security from instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, soon to be working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. >> how much pressure do you feel right now? >> what we feel is a profound sense of responsibility and we take this work really, really seriously. >> reporter: facebook is running drills to prepare for the worst, misinformation attacks attempting to sway your vo

room. here specialists are gathered to monitor facebook feeds for suspicious activity and this war room brings together experts including engineers including data scientists including threat intelligence investigators including operation specialists and all of them work together to be able to detect if there are any sort of late breaking issues and respond in real time to any issues that may arise . lexi's thirty heads up the war room and she was available for journalists who were allowed a rare peek into the otherwise locked space last week the monitors were following post related to the elections in brazil. to have the normal trend of what a day in brazil or the u.s. should look like on facebook and if there's any anomaly in that it'll. look into. the u.s. authorities say facebook was one of the ways foreign powers tried to manipulate the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential elections so the company is on a p.r. offensive to show what is taking america's vital mid-term elections next month very seriously but many critics say facebook has to do a lot more. good. that's all for business

. >>> what we're learning about facebook's war room where employees are monitoring what's posted online so it doesn't tamper with the election. >>> looking out for san francisco bay, we'll check in with rosemary for a look at the forecast coming up. ing up. >> also a protest drops commuters in the south bay. why demonstrators are against one tech giant expanding in the silicon valley. >>> more than a double google employees had a late start to the work day as protestors blocked their commute bus for more than an hour. >>> this demonstrates continued resistance into downtown san jose. and jessie has the story. >> police reopened the streets midmorning after drivers had their normal routine disrupted. >>> commuters were forced to find what go around in downtown san jose thursday morning, this as demonstrators protesting google's expansion, they blocked one of the buses as a driver headed to company headquarters. >> i don't want google here, it will displays thousands of people. >> the bus driver tells fox 2 he was headed from downtown san jose to parkmore street and mountain view, and 2,0

how many people will be in the war room. >> you cannot fit everyone that works on security at facebookhave four major public funds calling for the removal of mark zuckerberg as chairman. i wonder what you think about that. i dare you to say yes, that is a good idea, but what do the people of facebook think about the leadership at facebook right now? >> they are really very focused on the election coming up. mark has been very vocal about it. we're all pulling together and we're starting to see results. we had a dozen major take downs where we identified and removed information operations over the last year. we have the war room set up now, and to compliment the people in the war room, we have automated systems doing automated analysis to help us deal with the scale of facebook. all of those things pulling together and we're starting to see results. >> back to the question about mark's leadership? >> in the area where i work, he has had incredible leadership. >> what was your aha moment? for a long time they said that facebook did not take this seriously. what was the moment when you sa

facebook headquarters. this is what they're calling the war room to protect american democracy. ion here is, is this window dressing or is this a real solution? this morning, facebook is on offense after facing fallout from fake news and hacking scandals. many users wondering what can be trusted in our feeds, ahead of the midterm elections, just 19 day it s away. now the social media giant launching a new war room so it can strike back. >> roughly 20 -- >> reporter: we went behind closed doors to see how it will work. the goal, prevent another 2016 when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, 2 dozen teams from security to instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, soon to be working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. how much pressure do you feel? >> a profound sense of responsibility and we take this work really seriously. >> facebook is running trill ruo prepare for the worst. >> we're monitoring the amount of political content in the u.s. that might be of foreign origin. one of our dash boards here monitors that

facebook who are working on elections. these people represent teams such as threat intel, operations, status scientists, research and we come into this room to streamline communication and decision-making. >> the war room is just one reform facebook is making after it was discovered that thousands of ads during the november 2016 election had been traced to russia. facebook says in the past year, it's removed more than a billion fake accounts. >>> golden state warriors head coach steve kerr, he's getting out the vote. >> we're a government of the people for the people and by the people. guess who the people are? us. >> the warriors posted this video on twitter today. kerr says he's teamed up with rock the vote the deadline to register to vote in california is monday. if you want info on how to register, we have it on our website, abc7news.com/election. >>> there have been rumors that one of our california senators may run for president in 2020. camilla harris hasn't made any announcements yet. up next, the strategy advisers are discussing. >>> the disappearance of a journalist believed to be killed in a saudi consulate. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, xfinity xfi. a more powerf

facebook is dealing with that at the same time trying to roll out this war room, where it is trying toonvince the public it will be prepared for not just the brazil runoff election, but the u.s. midterms, coming up very soon. and the problem in brazil in particular is that whatsapp is an encrypted app. so the messages people send to each other, facebook cannot really see. they are using their machine training to try to figure out where the spam is coming from. all they can do is get rid of the account. they can't necessarily track what's being sent to whom or how often it is being sent. and that is a very hard problem to solve. emily: david, sarah and i both went into this election interference war room that facebook has now set up, where they have teams of people from different teams across the country, company who can make quick decisions if something happens. they are tracking the elections in brazil. they are tracking the elections in the united states. the point has been made that facebook can't do everything. it's up to users to decide if they see a post, whether it looks false o

emily: david, sarah and i both went into this election interference war room that facebook has now set up, where they had teams of people from different teams across the country, company who can make quick decisions if something happens. you are tracking the elections in brazil and the united states -- they are tracking the elections in brazil and the united states. the point has been made that facebook can't do everything. it's up to users to decide if they see a post, whether it looks false or not. is it too much to expect facebook to be able to do what it -- what we are expecting facebook to do? david: no intelligent observer could expect them to keep all unpleasant and unproductive messages off of their system. what we need is far better means to address the problems when they are identified. i think the war room is a great idea. it should have been begun probably four years ago. you look at a situation like what happened in brazil with the son getting kicked off with that myanmarwhatsapp or in where the general who runs the country got kicked off facebook, only after he was recomm

could trust the platform.now ceo mark zuckerberg has vowed to get ahead of these issues, and facebook's new war room is a part of those efforts.. . leading up to the midterm elections - this room will be operating 24/7.the people in this room are supported by the 20,000 facebook employees across the globe hired to work on safety and security. samidh: "we've actually been running this for the first round of the brazilian election, which was just last week. and during that time we saw a spike in potential voter suppression related content." two years after the 2016 election, the attacks have changed..nathaniel gleicher - who served on president barack obama's national security council - now leads facebook's efforts to eliminate trolls and state-run disinformation campaignsnathaniel: "one of the challenges we always face is that if you have sophisticated threat actors they keep evolving their tactics, they don't do the same thing again and again. and so part of what we've done is that we head into these elections, we sort of think about our threat model. what are the new challenges that are coming, wha

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war room to strike back. we went behind closed doors to see how it works. the goal, prevent another 2016 when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebooktwo dozen teams from security to instagram representing 20,000 facebook employees. soon to be working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. how much pressure do you feel? >> we feel a profound sense of responsibility, and we take this work really seriously. >> reporter: facebook is running drills to prepare for the worse. misinformation attacks, attempting to sway your vote, or suppress voter turnout. >> we're monitoring the amount of political content in the u.s. that might be of foreign origin. one of our dashboards monitors that and sets off an alarm if we see a spike in that type of activity. >> reporter: it's a direct response after dealing with bad headlines. 87 million users' data improperly shared with cambridge analytica back in march putting mark zuckerberg in the hot seat on capitol hill. this summer facebook disclosed it blocked 1.3 billion fake accounts and last month 30 million accounts hacked allowing people to impersonate now. >> how confident are you an american voter wil

kron 4 news. ( marty ) facebook has built what its calling a "war room" to help fight mis-information years since russian interference manipulated the 2016 presidential election. it was a privacy scandal that left users wondering if they could trust the platform. now ceo mark zuckerberg has promised to get ahead of these issues, and facebook's new war room is a part of those efforts.. this room will be operating 24/7. ( marty ) the people in this room are supported by the 20- thousand facebook security employees worldwide. ( marty ) kron 4 is your local election headquarters: the mid term elections are on november 6th but the deadline to regi

facebook has set up a war room inside its menlo park headquarters to detect accounts spreading false news stories before the election. it is to prevent malicious attempts to sway voters. it's not just facebook but they are focused on the company's other services including instagram and whatsapp. >> this is rotating 24 people who represent the 20,000 people working on elections. these people represent teams such as threat intel, operations, data scientists, research. we come into this room to decision making. >> the war room is just one change facebook is making in the wake of the russia scandal. investigators discovered thousands of ads and stories planted by russian agents trying to influence the 2016 election. >>> president trump wants to stop thousands of immigrants coming from central america. he rallied support tphers montana. he promised to shut down the tht u.s./mexico border. >> i'm willing to send the military to defend our southern border if necessary. because of the illegal immigration onslaught. >> immigration sparked an expletive shouting match between chief of staff john

secret room at facebook's headquarters where they're waging a war to fight fake news.ction, less than three weeks away, is included. jo-ling kent is live for us in our washington bureau. take us behind closed doors. you have a cool look at this. >> nerve center for facebook's operations to counterattack any aggression for those midterm elections. is it enough to fend off threats coming soon to facebook? on offense after facing fallout from fake news and hacking scandals, many users wondering what can be trusted in our feed s ahead of the midterm elections just 19 days away. >> welcome to the war room. >> thank you! >> launching a new war room, so it can strike back. >> roughly 20 -- >> we went behind closed doors to see how it will work. the goal? prevent another 2016, when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, two dozen teams from security to instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. >> how much pressure do you feel right now? >> a profound sense of responsib

. >> reporter: facebook has created its first ever war room to fight election manipulation. inof connecting teamsirtually to tackle threats as they arise, tw the social platform is bringingm together. with new strategies to enable trendsms here to track on facebook using artificial intelligence and machine learning to quickly identify and shut down suspicious activity. >> we have essentially done much scenario planng and like war games internally within the war room in der to plan out different types of problems that we may see and we practice and done drills to see how we can detect that. how we can come to quick decisions and take quick action. >> facebook's head of election integrity, explaining how the teams in this room identified false news that brazilian election day w delayed and attempt at voter experiencing suppression. they they pulled down the post before they went viral. >> here is the war room the emplees representing nearly every corner of company from instagram and what's app to data science and public policy. right now working from 4:00 a.m. to midnight but c

(justine) facebook is taking new steps to try to prevent a repeat of the election interference that happened in 20-16.(jrs) the social media giant has built a so-called "war room" to help fight misinformation campaigns. but, as trolls get more sophisticated, the fight to protect the facts has become an around-the-clock job.it's been nearly two years since facebook was caught flat footed.there was the russian interference aimed at manipulating the 2016 presidential election.a privacy scandal that left users wondering if they could trust the platform.now ceo mark zuckerberg has vowed to get ahead of these issues, and facebook's new war room is a part of those efforts.. . leading up to the midterm elections - this room will be operating 24/7.samidh: "we have a bunch of dashboards that you see around the perimeter of the room, which actually are backed up by artificial intelligence and machine learning to be able to flag any sort of anomalies or problems that we see. once that happens, our data scientists are able to review it, understand what's happening and pass it along to our engineers and operations specialists to take action against harmful content that we s

out a so-called "war >>> in the ongoing fight against fake news, facebook is rolling out a so-called war room ahead of next month's election. the new nerve center is located at the headquarters, and it's designed to combat bogus accots news stories. facebook blocked 1.3 billion fake accounts this summer th moi ceo's mark zuckerberg attitude two years ago when he brushed off accusations that fake news stories influenced the presidential election. critics fear this war room is simply a publicity stunt. >>> this sunday, the 49ers will unveil two statues at levi stadium that define their franchise, at least the people behind the statues. joe montana to 2008 clark. the statue also be placed exactly 23 yards apart, just as the two were doing during the play in 1982. the catch propelled the 49ers to their first super bowl. dwight clark lost his battle with als in june. >> you know, he was one of those games that just had a big heart, super, super friendly and good looking. he was a hard worker, he never complained about anything on or off the field. and even until the last days that i saw him. >> we

shery: facebook's new war room, of its effort r to fight interference and remove from its platforms. technology host emily cybersecurity head and civic engagement team leader facebook is.ared emily: this is facebook's room, teams of engineers, cyber policy and data for alists are patrolling fake news, misinformation, and meddling. in the war ening room right here right now? >> we have experts from across the company, data scientists are looking at dash boards and seeing, for example, if there is in things thatke ould be related to voter suppression to avoid it from going viral. emily: the war room did not 2016.in seemed to be in denial that it the election at all. >> personally i think the idea fake news on facebook of which it's a very small amount the e content influenced election in any way i think is a pretty crazy idea. last two years, it's abundantly clear that the facebook zed with the express purpose of sending u.s. elections into turmoil. acebook has apologized for not catching it and committed massive tech and human resources to combat it. calls coordinated inauthentic behav

. >>> speaking of spending on safety and security, facebook gearing up for those coming midterms julia boorstin got a tour of the war roomat manipulation, she joins us with more >> reporter: facebook invited us to the first ever war room to fight election manipulation, bringing together teams that represent every corner of facebook to track trends on facebook and its apps using artificial intelligence and machine learning that data populating monitors around the room so folks in there can quickly identify and shut down suspicious activity, including efforts at voter suppression, fake accounts, and fake news. >> we have essentially done much scenario planning and war games internally in the war room in order to plan different types of problems that we may see and we practice, we have done drills to see how we can detect that, come to quick decisions and take quick action >> the room is staffed 20 hours a day, ramping up to 24, 7 next week, representatives from over 20 teams across facebook for what's app and instagram to public policy, data science. the head of elections says the teams identified false news that the brazi

now, ceo mark zuckerberg has vowed to get ahead of these issues and facebook's new war room is part ofse efforts. >> they are actually monitoring our systems in real time for any sort of new threats we may see. investigate them, and then make decisions about how to take action against violating content that we see on our platform to prevent it from going viral. >> leading up to the midterm elections, this room will be operating 24/7. the people in the room are supported by the 20,000 facebook employees across the globe hired to work on safety and security. >> we have actually been running this for the first round of the brazilian election last week. during that time, we saw a spike in potential voter suppression related content. >> two years after the 2016 election, the attacks have changed. nathaniel, who served on president barack obama's national security council, now leads facebook's efforts to eliminate trolls in state-run disinformation campaigns. >> one of the challenge we always face is if you have sophisticated threat actors, they keep evolving their tactics. they don't do the

war room to find out. >> the drive to protect the mid-term election is in high gear at facebook. >> welcome to the war room. >> thank snow the world's biggest social network is mounting a coordinated war against false news and hacking in the final two weeks before election day. >> we want to be as quick and agile as we can here. all of these things help us really prevent problems before they can become viral. >> russia, russia, russia. >> reporter: the hope to prevent another 2016 disaster when the company allowed meddling and fake information to fred. >> we were slow in identifying the russian meddling operations in 2016. >> reporter: facebook claims the investment is paying off, saying it's found accounts from russia, iran and inside the u.s. targeting users in recent months. reddit, another powerful social network, is in the fight, too. is reddit ready for the mid terms? >> i think so. i think so. >> reporter: reddit is a breeding ground for conspiracy theories, violent threats and racism that unfold in real life, like the charlottesville unite the right rally last year, making its efforts even more cri

facebook cannot keep up. reporter: they created a war room where it's actually filled with facebook employees, not outside factrs. it was created ahead of the brazil election. they also use fact checkers. they have fact checker helpers. they are getting help from outsiders like the associated press. snoops. "the weekly standard" came in as one of the later ones, a conservative outlet showing facebook is trying not to be bias. abc news was in that list but dropped out because they felt they weren't make enough of a difference. then when you have fact check.org. you have two employees according to their financial statements, they paid $189,000 for these two employees. every day there are millions and billions of posts that people put out there. imagine how difficult it is for a company to have to go through it. they are relying on these fact checker helpers and some of the people in the war rooms and artificial intelligence. can they even get through any of it given how many posts they have to sift through? the last fact out of this report is none of those organizations received any special instructions ahead of

. >>> facebook will have a war room ahead of the midterm election, employees at the headquarters will monitor all political collection to make sure it's not corrupted by fake account. they're looking at content spread on the social media site. make sure it's posted and not posted by real people and groups. there will be a three step approach in the days lead up to the election day you, at first, we're removing content from the platform and accounts, and particularly if an account, it's a fake account or someone is engaged in authentic behavior, they'll remove it from the platform. if there is some misinformation or problematic on the platform, we'll reduce the distribution. >> the last is if our fact checkers identify something inaccurate or problematic, then their information will help to inform users of what they're seeing, we'll use all three of these techniques. >> facebook says the war room was modeled after operations in the political campaigns, in the final weeks before election day. >>> twitter released information on 10 million tweets that they say were legend to russia, twit