Facebook failed to stop test ads from threatening midterm election workers

 Meta’s election integrity efforts on Facebook may not have been as robust as claimed. Researchers at New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy and the watchdog Global Witness have revealed that Facebook’s automatic moderation system approved 15 out of 20 test ads threatening election workers ahead of last month’s US midterms. The experiments were based on real threats and used “clear” language that was potentially easy to catch. In some cases, the social network even allowed ads after the wrong changes were made — the research team just had to remove profanity and fix spelling to get past initial rejections.

The investigators also tested TikTok and YouTube. Both services stopped....                   read more....