Facebook to bolster fact-checking operations ahead of European Parliament elections GlobeTechnology
Facebook Inc. plans to ramp up efforts to fight misinformation ahead of the European Parliament election in May and will partner with German news agency DPA to boost its fact-checking, a senior executive said on Monday.
On Monday, Facebook said it was setting up an operations centre that would be staffed 24 hours a day with engineers, data scientists, researchers and policy experts, and co-ordinate with external organizations. It will also train over 100,000 students in Germany in media literacy and seek to stop paid advertising being misused for political ends.
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