Facebook said it aced Brazil’s election in terms of the social network's global battle against disinformation. But internally, there were doubts.
Facebook Inc. executives last year publicly touted their efforts ahead of Brazil’s presidential election as evidence of the company’s progress in combating misinformation on its platforms. Inside Facebook, the picture was more complicated.
Facebook’s own analysis found the social-media giant wasn’t able to uncover and stamp out suspicious behavior or misinformation on a large scale after the assassination of Brazilian politicianMarielle Franco in March 2018, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Facebook...
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