Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday to share their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections.
Last week, Facebookâs head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at Twitterâs headquarters in downtown San Francisco, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
âAs Iâve mentioned to several of you over the last few weeks, we have been looking to schedule a follow-on discussion to our industry conversation about information operations, election protection, and the work we are all doing to tackle these challenges,â Gleicher wrote.
The meeting, the Facebook official wrote, will have a three-part agenda: each company will present the work theyâve been doing to counter information operations; there will be a discussion period for problems each company faces; and a talk about whether such a meeting should become a regular occurrence.
In May, nine of those companies met at Facebook to discuss similar problems, alongside two US government representatives, Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary Chris Krebs and Mike Burham from the FBIâs Foreign Influence Task Force, created in November. Attendees left the meeting discouraged that they received little information from the government.
Kevin Collier – BuzzFeed – August 23, 2018.
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