Facebook sets up 'war room' to combat election manipulation in real time

Facebook is building a “war room” to handle election interference attempts as founder Mark Zuckerberg works to prevent a recurrence of 2016, when Russian agents used the social media platform to influence and inflame American voters.

The command center, at the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, will enable executives to assess threats, evaluate data, and “make real-time decisions as needed,” Samidh Chakrabarti, the company’s director of elections and civic engagement, said Wednesday.