The U.S. Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off “fake news' campaigns it fears could disrupt the upcoming 2020 count, according to Census officials.
Fliers encouraging Arab-Americans to fill out census forms are handed out in Bay Ridge, New York, on April 9, 2010.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.The U.S. Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off “fake news" campaigns it fears could disrupt the upcoming 2020 count, according to Census officials and multiple sources briefed on the matter.
The sources, who asked not to be named, said evidence included increasing chatter on platforms like fringe internet message board 4chan by domestic and foreign networks keen to undermine the survey. The census, they said, is a powerful target because it shapes U.S. election districts and the allocation of more than $800 billion a year in federal spending.
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