Facebook's election 'war room' is now empty

Facebook's vaunted election "war room" is currently empty, but the social network says that doesn't mean it's done fighting election interference. 

Bloomberg reported Monday that the so-called war room, the dedicated space at Facebook's headquarters that served as the company's ground zero for fighting election interference, had been "disbanded."

Facebook's war room consisted of a conference room staffed 24 hours a day and served as a command center for the company's various teams fighting misinformation on the platform ahead of election in the United States and Brazil. Facebook's Brazil office also had its own small war room. The room was put together after Facebook was criticized for not doing enough to respond to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Read more...