Facebook said it is working to identify targeting patterns that could signal potential meddling, in order to send those ads to human moderators. Facebook did not specify how much it is investing into its machine learning technology or how it will approach reviewing documentation from political ad buyers. The company’s updates the same day Facebook was expected to give federal investigators information on approximately 3,000 ads purchased by about 470 Kremlin-linked accounts. Facebook disclosed last month that Russian-backed accounts purchased about $150,000 of political ads on its 2-billion person network from 2015 to 2017. Facebook, Google and Twitter are expected to testify about Russian interference on their platforms in a Nov. 1 Senate hearing.

Source: Forbes October 02, 2017 18:57 UTC