At F8, Zuckerberg reiterates Facebook’s commitment to election integrity

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Mark Zuckerberg kicked off his keynote by explaining Facebook’s plans to protect the integrity of elections in the United States and abroad. He also recapped moves the company has made to boost transparency in election ads–things like requiring anyone buying a political ad produce government identification to prove they are who they are, and requiring that political ads on Facebook have a higher degree of transparency than print, radio, or TV ads. That, of course, is meant to get in front of Congress’s proposed Honest Ads Act. Zuckerberg also touted the oft-mentioned stat that Facebook plans on having 20,000 people working on security content review by the end of 2018–though the company has yet to explain how many of those people will be employees and how many will be contractors.


At F8, Zuckerberg reiterates Facebook’s commitment to election integrity