With new tools, Facebook aims to avoid US election fiasco repeat

Facebook says it has heavily invested in rooting out false information that could have an impact on voting. — Bloomberg

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is leveraging its vast resources to help protect the 2020 election against the kind of massive manipulation and disinformation efforts that the platform failed to act on in 2016.

The moves come with Facebook taking intense criticism from the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the British consultancy hijacked personal data from tens of millions of Americans to help Donald Trump's campaign, and for enabling foreign influence campaigns including from Russia four years ago.