The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter have testified before a powerful Senate Judiciary Committee of Congress where they defended their handling of disinformation in the closely-fought US presidential election. Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers on Tuesday that ahead of the November 3 election, the social media giant undertook the largest election integrity effort by any private company in recent times.
Altogether, I believe this was the largest election integrity effort by any private company in recent times. This is what people expect of us, Zuckerberg told the Senate Judiciary Committee which held a hearing on Censorship and the 2020 Election. I’m glad that from what we’ve seen so far, our systems performed well. But election interference remains an ongoing threat that will never fully be solved. So we continue to improve with each election, he said, giving details of the efforts being undertaken by the California-headquartered company during the elections.
Noting that they take responsibility at Facebook to protect the integrity of this election very seriously, Zuckerberg said that in 2016, the company began to face new kinds of threats and after years of preparation, they were ready to defend against them. We built sophisticated systems to protect against election interference that combined artificial intelligence, significant human review and partnerships with the intelligence community, law enforcement and other tech platforms, he said.
