Facebook is establishing two new regional operations centers, at its existing offices in Dublin and Singapore, as a continuation of its efforts to safeguard upcoming elections around the world.
Global politics and government outreach director Katie Harbath and director of product management, civic engagement Samidh Chakrabarti said in a Newsroom post that the goal is to strengthen coordination between Facebook’s global teams and its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., as well as to speed up response times.
The new regional operations centers will include experts from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and focus on fake news, hate speech and voter suppression and work with the social network’s teams for threat intelligence, data science, engineering, research, community operations and legal.
Lawmakers, election commissions, fact-checkers, researchers, academics and civil society groups will also work closely with the company’s new regional operations centers.
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