Trump regime and the Republican Party are increasingly criticizing major social media such as フ ェ イ ス ブ ッ ク (FB) before the US midterm election in November. It seems that each company is said to be a sign of a sense of crisis to existence that may influence the election result as a result of progress of fake (counterfeit) news countermeasure, successive deletion of extremely right page etc. close to Mr. Trump.
"We were too late to see through the movement of the Russian side, it is our responsibility."
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer (COO), who has a book on women's social advancement, frankly broke up at the beginning of the US Senate Information Committee hearing on Monday morning.
During the presidential election in 2016, the FB was used as a place for Russian fake news diffusion, which was said to have influenced the election results. In anticipation of the November midterm election, FB has eliminated 652 cases, including fake accounts, in August as a measure to prevent recurrence, and is rapidly accelerating countermeasures.
Mr. Sandberg explained that the number of persons in charge of safety measures has been increased to more than 20,000 people, which is more than twice as much as in the past, and it corresponds to 50 languages of the world on a 24-hour system. In anticipation of forces that try to unfairly use social media, expressing the present situation of strengthening defense to "something like arms race competition" and talking about determination to make every effort to protect consumers.
Twitter's Jacques Dorsey CEO also explains that it is currently dealing with about 10 million suspicious accounts each week and dealt with "using all your own power" did.
However, the debate of the hearing proceeded not only to measures for the middle election but also to the size of the social influence of FB and Twitter.
"Tweets are being used for children's bullying" "Why is advertising of illegal drugs left on Twitter at this moment" "Videos that made children target sex are up It is being done. "
US lawmakers gave Mr. Dorse one after another.
"Increase in fatalities due to illegal drugs" and ...