Facebook Stopped Bangladeshi Ad Farm Targeting Utah in Midterms
- One day in mid-October at 11:24 a.m., an alert went off in Facebook Inc.’s election War Room. Political news in a Utah congressional district wasn’t coming from inside the U.S. -- a mismatch Facebook had tuned its software algorithms to detect. A data scientist in the election-monitoring center at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, inspected the activity manually and discovered, at 11:47 a.m., that the source spreading the content was an ad farm in Bangladesh. Ten minutes later, an operations specialist removed all the ...
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