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Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy
| and the work we are all doing to tackle these challenges,” Gleicher wrote.
The meeting, the Facebook official wrote, will have a three-part agenda: each company presents the work they’ve been doing to counter information operations; a discussion period for problems each company faces; and a talk about whether such a meeting should become a regular occurrence.
In February, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office charged 13 people affiliated with Russia’s Internet Research Agency —
| — a “troll factory” where employees created personas across multiple platforms — with breaking laws in order to influence American voters. Since then, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, and YouTube have each had at least one public purge of accounts believed to be foreign influence operations.
The meeting highlights tech companies’ recent efforts to be more proactive with governments’ use of their sites to achieve political goals.
| Several companies have announced operations this week where they partnered with other organizations to address such problems.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/tech-companies-are-gathering-for-a-secret-meeting-to
| I guess this is the part of cyberpunk where companies overthrow countries through information manipulation.
| I really cant wait Facebook to filter out right leaning info or political adverts as 'Spy interference' UwU
| ingsoc rising
| not so secret
| "Internet (and IT) Companies" themselves are a threat to democracy and liberty. I don't trust them. First they take away peoples freedom by establishing closed platforms and now they start taking away freedom of speech, democracy and public estate.
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| "Brainwashing" is just a meme right. No such thing as controlling the masses
| >>392753
Companies maybe, but the internet not so much. In fact, the lack of regulation on the internet right now is one of the few aspects about it that allow it to give us so much free speech. Each platform is privately owned not unlike a store, which is why they're allowed to say you can't say certain things. The beauty of the internet is you can go out and make your own platform if you want, your own blog, your own forum.
The only thing standing in the way are companies.
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| Last week, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at Twitter’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
“As I’ve mentioned to several of you over the last few weeks, we have been looking to schedule a follow-on discussion to our industry conversation about information operations, election protection,