Facebook should open an office in Ukraine, staffed with Ukrainian and Russian language speakers trained to detect and expose Kremlin interference in the 2019 elections, recommends a joint panel of representatives of the European Parliament and the National Democratic Institute, a Washington-based organization. A local office staff could combat Russian interference in real time, says Laura Jewett, regional director of the NDI. Last month, Facebook’s pattern of ignoring complaints from Ukraine was outlined in a Washington Post article headlined: “Russian disinformation on Facebook targeted Ukraine well before the 2016 U.S. election.”
Facebook should open an office in Ukraine, staffed with Ukrainian and Russian language speakers
