SAN FRANCISCO: One of Facebook's third-party fact-checking partners on Tuesday said the company needed to share more data with fact-checkers to better curb misinformation.
Facebook launched the programme in December 2016 and now has 54 fact-checking partners working in 42 languages. Julia Bain of Facebook's integrity partnerships team said the social media network was evolving its rating scale to account for different types of misinformation and working on improving the impact of fact-checks by identifying similar or identical content."We are encouraged that many of the recommendations in the report are being actively pursued by our teams," Bain said in a statement to Reuters.
Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.org, recently told Reuters that he"couldn't make heads or tails" of a report the organisation received last December.