Technology
FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub invited Facebook, Google, and Twitter to a conference to speak on the matter of disinformation; however, the discussion hasn't been aired to the rest of the population. Moreover, Facebook this week spoke about their attitude towards political speech on Facebook's platform. Nick Clegg, VP of Global Affairs and Communications spoke at the Atlantic Festival in Washington DC, set out the measures that Facebook is taking to prevent outside interference in elections and Facebook’s attitude towards political speech on the platform. During this conference, the topic that was covered was Fact-Checking Political Speech, Newsworthiness Exemption, Political speech, Recruiting an army of people, Cracking down on fake accounts, and the uses of AI to help with deep fake videos. Source Information : https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/elections-and-political-speech/ IG: Minimalist_T3 Twitter: @daveLara_WD --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/minimalisttechnews/support