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It, understand what's happening and pass it along to our engineers and operations specialists to take actionconte see on our platform. >> it's been nearly two years since facebook was caught flat footed. there was the russian interference aimed at manipulating the 2016 presidential election. a privacy scandal that left users wondering if they could trust the platform. now, ceo mark zuckerberg has vowed to get ahead of these issues and facebook's new war room is part of those efforts. >> they are actually monitoring our systems in real time for any sort of new threats we may see. investigate th...

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 ...

Point of contact so that we are not bouncing between multiple agencies to do our work. >> do you have a more streamlined approach now with the government when it comes to reporting? do you have a direct line to the fbi, to dhs, to some of these major campaigns when you do find something? >> we work closely with the foreign influence task force of the fbi, with the department of homeland security. another really important partner for us is state elections officials because they're the ones on the ground. they're going to see threats emerge first. >> what do you say to folks who say can we trust...

Related content. >> two years after the 2016 election, the attacks have changed. nathaniel, who served on president barack obama's national security council, now leads facebook's efforts to eliminate trolls in state-run disinformation campaigns. >> one of the challenge we always face is if you have sophisticated threat actors, they keep evolving their tactics. they don't do the same thing again and again. part of what we have done is we think about the threat model. what are the new challenges coming, what are the think things we haven't seen before. and then we test that and run that. >> anot...

To silence even someone who is close to them at one point, he didn't behave like someone living in fear. we had plans. we were having more meetings. we were discussing the future. he wasn't acting like somebody who was in fear for his life at all, not with me. >> the one thing has become tragically fear, and that is that his voice has been amplified through this tragedy. his voice has been amplified. that's why we felt it was so important to read every one of his words. thank you for helping everyone remember what he stood for. >> thank you, karen. >> thank you, guys, for that. thank you for r...