Specialists to monitor ads and content on Facebook for 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Facebook says it doesn't want a repeat of the kind of meddling that took place in the 2016 US election

In order to ensure that its platform isn't used to influence elections in India, Facebook has set up a task force consisting of several specialists who will monitor advertising and content on the platform as the world’s biggest democracy goes to polls next year.

There have been reports of Facebook being misused by external forces to meddle in the 2016 US election. The social networking giant too had accepted that it missed certain things in the run-up to the US elections. However, it hopes such a thing won’t be repeated in India as the company will have hundreds of people