TelevisaUnivision Partners with Meta on Fact-Checking
Univision Noticias’ Spanish-language fact-checking effort, elDetector, will expand its reach by joining Meta’s third-party fact-checking program
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Univision Noticias’ Spanish-language fact-checking effort, elDetector, will expand its reach by joining Meta’s third-party fact-checking program
Fact-checkers around the world call for meaningful transparency from YouTube and collaboration on efforts to debunk lies and disinformation, among others
Fri, Feb 26th 2021 3:35pm — Copia Institute Summary: With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the large social media companies very quickly put in place policies to try to handle the flood of disinformation about the disease, responses, and treatments. How successful those new policies have been is subject to debate, but in at least one case, the effort to fact check and moderate COVID information ran into a conflict with people reporting on violent protests (totally unrelated to COVID) in Nigeria. In Nigeria, there’s a notorious division called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad...