Facebook announces ‘independent election research commission’

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Facebook is launching an “independent election research commission” that it says will help fight misinformation, fake news and election manipulations.

The international research initiative is backed by a handful of scholars, and will include the Democracy Fund and the Charles Koch Foundation.

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