Facebook has begin fact - ascertain photos and video recording , as a part of a larger plan to foreclose foreign agents from using the platform to go around propaganda and influence elections .
Executives on Thursday explained Facebook ’s plansin a blog postand on a conference call with journalists . Some of the program had already been announced — for example , aver election ad vendee by requesting copies of government - make out IDs and by corroborate address withsnail chain mail .
Now , fact - checking effort will also encompass photos and videos . Product director Tessa Lyons said the society begin fact - checking photos and video yesterday , in France , with the help of the nation ’s word agency Agence France - Presse .
Facebookannounced earlier this monththat it was team up up with the Associated Press so the news office could help tell apart and debunk false news stories . The ship’s company did not declare today if or when the AP would facilitate fact - cheque photos and TV .
Facebook first start out exact activity against election hindrance in December 2016 . Under the off-key - news strategy that Facebook already had in place , Facebook slide by flagged stories to fact - checkers . Under the new enterprise discussed today , Facebook is allowing fact - checkers to proactively go after and flag stories , telecasting , and meme , as fact - checkers might be able to spot propaganda before Facebook ’s arrangement does . Facebook presently has third - company fact - checkers in six country . The most late addition are Mexico and Italy .
Lyons said Facebook will also be more transparent about fact - checking , and will send notices to page administrators when their mental object has been flagged as fake tidings and removed . The company will also point pages that pump out false news program . “ We lose weight their distribution and remove their ability to advertise and monetize — stopping them from hand , growing , or profiting from their hearing , ” Lyons say .
During the call with journalists , product manager Samidh Chakrabarti enjoin that Facebook feels “ like we ’re run to be in a really good place for the 2018 midterm . ” But alien agents and run strategists still have mess of time to figure out what Facebook has n’t describe for in this plan , if they have n’t already .
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