Inside the 'war room' where Facebook is trying to safeguard elections

Inside a windowless conference room at Facebook's sprawling headquarters, a few dozen employees sit in what's become the heart of the company's wide-ranging efforts to fight election interference.

It's called the war room — Facebook's hub for its election interference first responders. The engineers and data scientists and policy officials whose job it is to spot everything from foreign interference to attempts at voter suppression. 

The war room, which officially opened in September, is emblematic of just how much has changed at Facebook in the wake of the 2016 election — and how much is still at stake. After failing to spot Russia-backed influence campaigns and stem the tide of fake news in 2016, Facebook use is falling as distrust for the company grows. Read more...