New security efforts...
Facebook is taking new steps to prevent interference in the 2018 midterms, days before CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the hot seat before Congress to testify on Russian interference in the 2016 election and a data leak that allowed millions of Facebook profiles to fall into the hands of the Robert Mercer-backed political targeting firm Cambridge Analytica, Michael Learmonth and Alex Thompson report on vicenews.com.
Facebook announced last Friday it will require every advertiser that wants to run political or "issues" ads to have a verified account by confirming their identity and location, Learmonth and Thompson wrote.
Facebook will also require managers of large Facebook Pages to be verified, an attempt to prevent large accounts from spreading misinformation as Russian-linked accounts did in the 2016 presidential election, they added.
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