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Massive data breaches to concerns about user privacy, it hasn't been smooth sailing. we have a rare inside look at the tech giant. here's a et preview. >> it's october 19th, 2018. we are head iing to facebook. this is a really big deal. we're going to sit down with mark zuckerberg, who rarely sits down for interviews. >> facebook years are like dog years. a lot happens in a little time. in the months since i first walked through these doors. >> 50 million facebook users have been targeted by. hackers. the largest security breach in facebook history. >> facebook on the defensive today. sufferin...

Whether or not it hurts him or not, we'll have to wait and find out on election day. >> all right. mike dennison, thank you so much for sharing your reporting from the ground and your perspective. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. coming up, a look inside facebook's first-ever war room. how they say they're gearing up to fight against election interference with the midterms just 19 days away. will it be enough? that's next. will it be enough? that's next. duncan just protected his family

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 prepa...

Headlines. 87 million users' data improperly shared with political consulting firm cambridge analytica back in march, putting ceo mark zuckerberg in the hot seat on capitol hill. this summer, facebook disclosed it blocked 1.3 billion fake accounts. and last month, 30 million accounts hacked, allowing cyber criminals to read your private messages and impersonate you. how confident are you that a facebook user, an american voter, will be safe from disinformation on election day? >> i mean, our goal is to make sure that the public debate around the election is authentic. that's our priority and t...

>> 2018 is an incredibly important year for elections. not just with the u.s. midterms, but around the world, there are important elections in india, in brazil and mexico and pakistan and in hungary that we want to make sure that we do everything we can to protect the integrity of those elections. now, i have more confidence that we're going to get this right. >> so just how confident is facebook less than one month until the midterms here in the u.s.? nbc's joelilee ling kent joins . what'd you find? >> we spoke to facebook executives inside facebook headquarters. they told us they're reasona...