SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft met with government officials in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss and coordinate on how best to help secure the 2020 US election, kicking off what is likely to be a marathon effort to prevent the kind of foreign interference that roiled the 2016 election.
"Improving election security and countering information operations are complex challenges that no organisation can solve alone," Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Facebook cybersecurity policy, said in a statement."Today's meeting builds on our continuing commitment to work with industry and government partners, as well as with civil society and security experts, to better understand emerging threats and prepare for future elections.
The companies have also tried other tactics to get a handle on how their platforms and products can be misused in elections. Facebook has tried to monitor and ward off threats to elections in many countries beyond the United States, including Brazil, Mexico, Germany and France. Last week, for example, the social network said it was strengthening how it verified which groups and people place political advertising on its site.
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