AFP Extends Digital Verification Into Finnish And Greek modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Credit: Nenad Stojkovic/ CC BY 2.0Facebook announced on Thursday that their new fact-checker against what they consider fake news in Greece will be the French news agency Agence France Press, or AFP.Facebook has been using fact-checkers to combat what they judge to be fake news for the past two years in Greece, and has in…
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Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell slammed the “fraudulent” Facebook fact-checker program for spreading communist Chinese propaganda after Facebook announced it was backtracking on its policy of censoring content that questioned the origins of COVID-19.
Early in the pandemic, Facebook and its fact-checkers censored claims that COVID-19 was manufactured in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Now, however, it appears as though the laboratory origin has become a more widely accepted theory, and Facebook is eating its words.
Facebook said in a May 26 update it would “no longer” censor posts claiming that COVID-19 was “man-made or manufactured.” The recent admission has launched criticism that the platform’s fact-checker program is unreliable and faulty.
AFP Wins Three European Projects To Fight Disinformation modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.