like t-shirts. well, cnn business senior technology correspondent lori siegl looks at how facebook is fighting other similar threats. reporter: the room isn t that big. just enough space for around 20 people and their computers. but the undertaking is enormous. it s really the culmination of two years of massive investments we ve made. reporter: just weeks ahead of the midterm election, facebook has created what it s calling the war room. we have a bunch of dashboards you see around the perimeter of the room which actually are backed up by artificial intelligence and machine learning to be able to flag any anomalies or problems we see. once that happens our data sign tiflts are able to review it, understand what s happening, and pass it along to our engineers and operations specialists to take action against harmful content that we were see on our platform. reporter: it s been nearly two years since facebook was caught flat-footed. there was the russian interference aimed at
prevent another 2016, when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, two dozen teams from security to instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. how much pressure do you feel right now? a profound sense of responsibility and we take this work really, really seriously. reporter: facebook is running drills to prepare for the worst. misinformation attacks tempted to sway your vote or suppress voter turnout. we re monitoring political content that might be of foreign origin. one of our dashboards monitors that and sets off an alarm if we start to satisfy a spike in that kind of activity. reporter: war room is a direct response of dealing with a long list of bad headlines. 87 million users data improperly shared with cambridge analytica in march, putting ceo mark
launching a new war room, so it can strike back. roughly reporter: we went behind downloads doors to see how it will work. the goal, prevent another 2016, when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, two dozen teams from security from instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, soon to be working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. how much pressure do you feel right now? what we feel is a profound sense of responsibility and we take this work really, really seriously. reporter: facebook is running drills to prepare for the worst, misinformation attacks attempting to sway your vote or suppress voter turnout. we re monitoring the amount of political content in the u.s. that might be of foreign origin. so one of our dashboards here actually monitors that and sets off an alarm, if we start seeing a spike if that kind of activity. reporter: facebook s war room is a direct response to dealing with a long list of
spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, 2 dozen teams from security to instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, soon to be working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. how much pressure do you feel? a profound sense of responsibility and we take this work really seriously. facebook is running trill ruo prepare for the worst. we re monitoring the amount of political content in the u.s. that might be of foreign origin. one of our dash boards here monitors that and sets off an alarm if we see a spike in that activity. facebook s war room is a direct response. 87 million users data improperly shared with politico consulting firm cambridge analytical back in march, putting ceo mark zuckerberg in the hot seat on capitol hill. this summer, facebook disclosed
facebook is taking new steps to try to prevent a repeat of the interference in the 2016 election. social media giant has built a so-called war room to help combat misinformation campaigns in real time. as trolls get more sophisticated, fight to protect the facts has become an around the clock job. laurie segall reports. the room isn t that big. just enough space for around 20 people and their computers. but the undertaking is enormous. really the culmination of two years of massive investments we made. weeks ahead of the midterm election, facebook has created what it s calling the war room. we have a bunch of dashboards which are backed up by artificial intelligence and machine learning to flag any sort of anomalies or problems we see. once that hanned, our data scientifics are able to review