Facebook launches reality-checking carrier on WhatsApp in Italy to combat coronavirus hoaxes
Facebook Inc. Launched a carrier in Italy to test the accuracy of facts on coronavirus circulating on its messaging platform WhatsApp, the U.S. Tech company said on Thursday.
In a fresh try to combat manipulated content material, Facebook said it become working with neighborhood reality checking service Facta that's reading content circulating on WhatsApp, such as video, audio or images.
Users can ship content material to Facta via a WhatsApp message to test it is genuine.
WhatsApp is the maximum popular messaging platform in Italy, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak in Europe.
Traffic on the platform has spiked because the government positioned the us of a beneath lockdown as customers became to social media to preserve in contact with relatives and pals.
But the messaging app has additionally been a vehicle for hoaxes over alleged dramatic situations in hospitals and videos claiming that the virus, which has killed 13,915 human beings in Italy, were created in a laboratory - or did not exist at all.
WhatsApp, which has 2 billion customers global, has been trying to find methods to forestall the platform being used to spread faux news.