FILE – In this Oct. 17, 2019, record print Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during Georgetown University in Washington. With only over a year left until a 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping adult a efforts to safeguard it is not used as a apparatus to meddle in politics and democracies around a world. Facebook pronounced Monday, Oct. 21, that it will also tag state-controlled media as such, tag fact -checks some-more clearly and deposit $2 million in media education projects. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)
With only over a year left until a 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping adult a efforts to safeguard it is not used as a apparatus to meddle in politics and democracies around a world.
The efforts embody a special confidence apparatus for inaugurated officials and possibilities that monitors them for hacking attempts. Facebook pronounced Monday it will also tag state-controlled media as such, tag fact-checks some-more clearly and deposit $2 million in media education projects.
The association says it will supplement some-more distinguished labels on debunked posts on Facebook as good as on Instagram. It will put labels on tip of what are deemed “false” and “partly false” photos and videos.
Critics contend Facebook’s measures don’t go distant adequate and a categorical problem is a business model, that depends on targeted advertisements and creation certain that users are intent and entertained.
As partial of a efforts summarized on Monday, Facebook says it will supplement some-more information about who is behind a page. This comes after a association pronounced it beheld groups and people “failing” to divulge a organizations behind pages so people consider it is run independently. Starting with vast pages in a U.S., Facebook says it is adding a new territory about “organizations that conduct this page.”
