Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced that it is adding four new languages to its fact-checking programme in India.<\/p>\n
The programme will now include Kashmiri, Bhojpuri, Odia and Nepali, in addition to the existing 11 Indian languages, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In addition, it has also partnered with NewsMeter, a fact checker primarily focused on the southern states in the country.<\/p>\n
The partnership will help connect people to accurate and verified information and enhance Meta’s fact-checking capabilities in regional Indian languages including Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil, the company said.<\/p>\n
Globally, Meta works with more than 80 fact-checking partners that review and rate content in over 60 languages.<\/p>\n
All of its fact-checking partners have been certified through the independent, non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network.<\/p>\n
With the new partnership, Meta will have 11 fact-checking partners in India, making it the country with the most number of third party fact checking partners globally.<\/p>\n
“We are committed to combating the spread of misinformation and have built the largest global fact-checking network,” said Manish Chopra, Director, and Head of Partnerships, India at Meta, in the statement.<\/p>\n
“The partnership with NewsMeter is an important step in enabling us to curb misinformation in regional Indian languages across Facebook and Instagram,” he added.<\/p>\n
Each time a fact-checker rates a piece of content as false, altered or partly false, Meta reduces its distribution so that fewer people see it.<\/p>\n
It also notifies people who try to share the content, or who previously shared it that the information was rated by a fact-checker.<\/p>\n
Further, a warning label is also added to the content with links to the fact-checker’s article to provide more information about the claim.<\/p>\n
To help tackle the issue of misinformation online, Meta has also partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) to fund a fact-checking news fellowship programme designed exclusively for Indian news organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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