Facebook to roll out election integrity program in Canada

Facebook, below pressure over its position in likely Russian meddling in 2016’s presidential election of the U.S., claimed that it aims for an election integrity proposal to protect next vote of Canada from cyber attacks.

Minister of democratic institutions of Canada, Karina Gould, will talk next week at a rollout event, Facebook claimed last week to the media in a statement declaring the project. A spokesperson of the company refused to give the details regarding the project, which follows a caution by electronic spy agency of Canada in June that spammers will “very probably” make an attempt to influence 2019 elections of Canada. The agency claimed that it is counseling all political parties on how to defend against cyber assaults.

Facebook, the largest social network in the world, claimed last week that an operation probably located in Russia had positioned thousands of U.S. ads with polarizing views on issues such as race, immigration, and gay rights on the website during a time frame of 2 Years from May 2017. The firm on Wednesday rolled out harder rules on who can make cash from ads on its network, replying to criticism that it was too simple to make money from sensational headlines and fake news.

Facebook in Canada is rolling the program since Internet firms look to repulse criticism and they are not doing sufficient efforts to prevent online meddling with politics and elections. “The spread of half truths online can swing votes,” claimed an academic researcher studying politics and social media at Ryerson University, Anatoliy Gruzd, to the media in an interview.

“Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook really require putting technical actions in place that might avoid the creation of groups or the spread of false information that may endorse hate speech,” Gruzd claimed. Twitter Inc was anticipated to brief the U.S. congressional examiners shortly on whether Russia utilized its Ad platform to market divisive political and social messages, a U.S. senator claimed to the media in an interview last week. Google last week claimed that it had seen no proof of an ad campaign from Russia on its platforms.