Facebook makes progress in fighting fake news- Elections

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 07:47 PM

Facebook makes progress in fighting fake news- Elections

San Francisco, April 9: In yet another bid to prevent fake news and foreign interference in upcoming elections globally including in India, Facebook on Monday announced a new initiative to help provide credible research about the role of social media in elections.

"Our goals are to understand Facebook's impact on upcoming elections -- like Brazil, India, Mexico and the US midterms -- and to inform our future product and policy decisions," Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Communications and Public Policy, and David Ginsberg, Director of Research at Facebook, said in a blog post.

"Facebook will not have any right to review or approve their research findings prior to publication," they added.

Facebook claimed it has made real progress since Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election in fighting fake news, as well as combating foreign interference, in elections in France, Germany, Alabama and Italy.