Agence France-Presse expands Facebook fact checks to cover Middle East and North Africa
Agence France-Presse is expanding its fact-checking operations with Facebook, in which it debunks flagged content shared on the social network,…
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Facebook community news project officially launches with full list of ‘under-served’ locations for 82 reporters
Facebook’s Community News Project officially launched today, revealing the full list of 82 new reporter roles which will cover “under-served”…
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Facebook pledges new scam ads feature in UK plus £3m to charity after settling defamation claim with Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis
Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis has dropped a defamation lawsuit against Facebook over scam adverts, which he claimed used…
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Recruiting begins for first Facebook-funded community reporters with post covering Grenfell Tower fire borough
News publishers have begun recruiting the first of 80 reporters under Facebook’s £4.5m Community News Project, including one covering the London…
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Facebook removes 364 ‘Sputnik employee-linked’ pages and accounts for ‘co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour’
Facebook has removed 289 pages and 75 accounts it claims are linked to employees of Russian-backed news agency Sputnik which…
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Full Fact to review news content on Facebook as social network launches UK fact-checking service
Facebook has launched a UK arm to its international fact-checking initiative following more than two years of criticism about how…
By Facebook denies prioritising advertisers for fact-check debunks in rebuttal to Guardian story
Facebook has rejected a claim that it prioritises the debunking of false content affecting its advertisers above others in response…
By ‘We’ve never sold people’s data’: Facebook responds to UK fake news inquiry’s publication of confidential email cache
Confidential emails between senior Facebook executives have been published by a Parliament select committee leading a fake news inquiry. A 250-page cache…
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