“We Asked Facebook 12 Questions About the Election, and Got 5 Answers”

NYT.

One of the questions Facebook did not answer:

12.Your advertiser website lists “success stories” of political campaigns that have used Facebook advertising to increase turnout and win elections. Knowing that Facebook could be used to influence election results, why did you not use a United States presidential election as an occasion to build the proper safeguards to make sure that your system was not gamed by foreign or malicious actors?

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