SOCIAL MEDIA AND ELECTIONS

About:

• The task force will comprise of “network of hundreds of people”, including specialists who will monitor advertising to make sure that ads are appropriate, and specialists to constantly look at the content.
  
  
• The company will also work with local political parties to understand what they are doing.
  
  

Background:

• Facebook is under criticism for improper use of its data to influence elections in its home country, the United States, following which, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, earlier this year, had announced putting in place a new policy to prevent interference in future elections.
  
  
• Facebook had said that the data of nearly 5.6 lakh Indian users may have been “improperly” shared with British political analytics company Cambridge Analytica.