Nine commandments of Zuckerberg. How will Facebook answer the "troll factory"?

The founder of Facebook presented a plan to combat interference in the internal affairs of the United States through social network.

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Facebook will tell you all about advertising Russian trolls

Mark Zuckerberg is fighting off the accusations that Facebook has become a field for Fake News and political manipulations, including the St. Petersburg "troll factory" Evgeny Prigozhin. Earlier it became known that during the American election campaign, its structure was purchased on social networks for $ 100 thousand.

The founder of Facebook announced at once nine steps that he and his company intend to take in order to avoid attempts to intervene in the internal affairs of the United States, using the capabilities of social networks.

• Facebook does not often change its own internal rules under the influence of external factors. This time, the company was also not originally going to share detailed information about the activity that has unfolded in the social network, allegedly related to Russia. But having studied the situation, ”she changed her mind and provided data on fake accounts“ Troll factories ”.
• Tsuckerberg promises that the company will continue to tightly cooperate with the special prosecutor Robert Muller, who is investigating Donald Trump's connection with Russia.
• But the main thing is that now the social network will show users of customers of all political advertising, and will also accompany advertising with links to the site, which will indicate what other advertising on the social network this company places.
• In order to avoid interference in electoral processes in different countries, Facebook promises to hire an additional 250 people, as well as interact more tightly with the authorities and other technological companies.
• Video with the full performance of Zuckerberg can be viewed here .
• We finish the positive: Facebook is conquered not only to trolls from Russia. Vedomosti write that Russian viral videos of the projects of the founders of Adme scored more than 3 billion views on Facebook, ending up in the top of the most popular.

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