Social media giant, Facebook on Monday said it has not disbanded the election war room set up to proactively address potential problems related to electoral abuses identified by its technology in real time.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Facebook Vice President of Product Management, Guy Rosen made this known, following questions that the social media giant had disbanded the widely publicized War Room in favour of a strategic response team.
“The war room was effective and we’re not disbanding it, we’re going to do more things like this. The war room will be operational ahead of major events, and it still stands.
“It was effective for our work in both the Brazil and US elections which is why it’s going to be expanded, not disbanded,” Guy said.
As Nigeria approaches the 2019 elections, it remains to be known if Facebook will expand the election war room to address potential problems related to electoral abuses in the country.
The Facebook Product Management Vice President did not immediately respond to query if the election war room will serve for 2019 elections in the country.
The social media platform launched its war room at its Menlo Park headquarters in California in October to serve as a nerve centre for the fight against misinformation and manipulation by foreign actors trying to influence elections.
The measure came after Facebook was accused of doing too little to prevent misinformation efforts by Russia and others in the 2016 US election.