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The War Room is a “proactive” way to build systems in anticipation of attacks, Greg Marra, a product manager working on Facebook’s News Feed, said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday.
One of the tools the company is introducing is custom software that helps track information flowing across the social network in real time, said Chakrabarti, who joined Facebook about four years ago from Google.
These dashboards resemble a set of line and bar graphs with statistics that provide a view into how activity on the platform is changing. They allow employees to zero in on, say, a specific false news story in wide circulation or a spike in automated accounts being created in a particular geographic area.