Facebook announces ‘independent election research commission’

By Kelly Cohen
Published April 9, 2018 2:09pm ET
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Facebook announces ‘independent election research commission’
Facebook will begin alerting users whose private data may have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal starting Monday. All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled “Protecting Your Information.” | (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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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