The project by Facebook Inc former chief security officer Alex Stamos to battle ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The project by Facebook Inc former chief security officer Alex Stamos to battle online abuses has received $5 million from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, the Stanford Internet Observatory said this week.
“The ability to do academic research on what’s happening online has never been worse,” said Stamos, who led Facebook’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and now runs Stanford University’s new internet research “observatory,” part of the university’s Cyber Policy Center.
“What we’re doing is rebuilding the arsenal of democracy,” Newmark, who founded classifieds site Craigslist, told Reuters. “You’ve got the Facebooks and the Googles deciding what is effectively election law globally,” he said. “But it’s because governments aren’t stepping up.”
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