WhatsApp India Tip Line Latest Salvo In Facebook's Fake News Offensive
2 April 2019 2:54 PM GMT
The social media giant is helping WhapsApp users in India fact-check information ahead of key elections
- Mark Zuckerberg's on the move, delivering his third fix in three days to address mounting furor over fake news and election tampering as voters in India, the world's largest democracy, prepare to go to the polls.
- The WhatsApp tip line called Checkpoint lets the service's 200 million users in India send messages, photos, links and videos in four Indian languages and English to be fact checked at a verification center that will declare them to be true, false, misleading or disputed.
- Among fake pages and fake accounts, some were associated with the major political parties running led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress.
- On Monday, Singapore introduced legislation called the Protection From Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill that would require websites to run corrections alongside "online falsehoods" and would "cut off profits" of sites that spread misinformation, among other measures, according to the Ministry of Law, said the NYT .
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