Facebook's Clegg: We're getting better at protecting elections

'We are getting better and better at protecting elections from foreign interference,' said Facebook's public affairs chief Nick Clegg on Jan 20. He is pictured here in London in May 2017. — Reuters

MUNICH: Facebook will do a better job of preventing bad actors from abusing its platform to manipulate this year's US presidential election than it did four years ago, its public affairs chief Nick Clegg said on Jan 20.

Facing a critical audience at a technology conference in Munich, Clegg, a British former deputy prime minister hired by Facebook in 2018, said interference by Russian and other operatives in the 2016 vote had "shocked everybody".