| Published Tue, January 23rd 2018 at 11:02, Updated January 23rd 2018 at 11:14 GMT +3On Monday, Facebook acknowledged that the explosion of social media poses a potential threat to democracy, pledging to tackle the problem head-on and turn its powerful platform into a force for "good." "In 2016, we at Facebook were far too slow to recognize how bad actors were abusing our platform," he said. "It's detestable to us that a nation used our platform to wage a cyberwar intended to divide society," Chakrabarti said. "This was a new kind of threat that we couldn't easily predict, but we should have done better. Facebook's plan to rank news organizations based on user "trust" surveys has drawn a mixed response.

Source: Standard Digital January 23, 2018 08:03 UTC