Facebook invests in anti-hacking election initiative

By Melissa Quinn

Published July 26, 2017 7:39pm ET

Facebook invests in anti-hacking election initiative — Facebook's participation in the Defending Digital Democracy Project comes after the company's security team issued a report in April explaining how the social media site was used during the 2016 campaign to spread misinformation "with the intent of harming the reputation of specific political targets." (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) | Noah Berger

Facebook has announced it will invest $500,000 in a Harvard-based nonprofit that aims to protect future elections from election hacking and foreign interference.

The initiative, called the Defending Digital Democracy Project, was launched last week by Robby Mook and Matt Rhoades, the former campaign chiefs for Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney, respectively.