He is president of the crisis communications firm Global Situation Room, Inc. and teaches crisis management at Georgetown University. Facebook dismantled its "War Room" towards the end of last year. After America's elections in 2016, we spent months trying to get our heads around the scope, scale, and sophistication of what Russia had done. Social media companies denied, then tried to diminish the severity of the problem, euphemistically labeling it "inauthentic activity." Social media companies did a lot of superficial stuff by finding a few fake accounts, which provided the appearance of doing something, and gave teams cool names like the "War Room."

Source: CNN January 21, 2019 14:15 UTC