Social media giant Facebook will reportedly soon be paying news wire Reuters to fact-check and verify news headlines, user-generated videos and photos, and other content in English and Spanish.
TechCrunch reports that news wire service Reuters is the latest media firm to join the ranks of Facebook’s fact-checking program. Reuters recently launched its Fact Check business unit and blog and will be working with Facebook to fact-check videos, photos, news headlines and more on the social media platform.
The four-person team from Reuters will focus on reviewing user-generated videos and photos as well as news headlines and content posted in English and Spanish. The team will be publishing its findings on the Reuters Fact Check blog where it will list the core claim of a Facebook post and why it’s false, partially false, or true. Facebook will use these conclusions to label posts on the site and downrank them in the News Feed algorithm.
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