Instagram is relying on parent Facebook Inc.’s help to root out the people and organizations that will try to manipulate its users with misinformation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
“We are just as big a target as Facebook if not a larger target,” Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said at an event at the company’s New York offices. “This isn’t a problem that ends.”
Mosseri said more engineers work on safety and election-interference issues at Facebook than work on Instagram overall. His strategy is to leverage Facebook’s resources to work on Instagram-specific issues. The two social networks have become more tightly integrated in the last two years, especially through a planned joining of their messaging products.
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Source: Instagram Leans on Facebook to Root out Election Misinformation – Bloomberg