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Kevin Collier at BuzzFeed: Tech Companies Are Gathering for a Secret Meeting to Prepare a 2018 Election Strategy.
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, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at Twitter's headquarters in downtown San Francisco, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.

"As I've 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," Gleicher wrote.

The meeting, the Facebook official wrote, will have a three-part agenda: each company will present the work they've 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.
Sure. All of that sounds perfect since they've all definitely been doing a terrific job not catastrophically subverting both elections and journalism, and they've always demonstrated that they've got our best interests at heart what with the excellent job they've done keeping Nazis off their platforms.

Christ.

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