Inside the Research Lab Teaching Facebook About Its Trolls
Aug 21, 2018•11 min
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Episode description
In late July, a group of high-ranking Facebook executives organized an emergency conference call with reporters across the country. That morning, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, explained, they had shut down 32 fake pages and accounts that appeared to be coordinating disinformation campaigns on Facebook and Instagram.
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