Some fact checkers only found out that they should be vetting paid adverts after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg described the new policyin Congress on Wednesday. But a policy update published late this summer allowed fact checkers to flag false adverts for the first time. But the ability to vet adverts at all is a new feature for fact checkers, and one some of them are not entirely comfortable with. Within the Libra Association will be a governing body called the Libra Association Council, comprised of a representative of each member of the association, which will vote on policy and operating decisions. Kari Paul in San Francisco Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images EuropeFacebook has started to roll out the new ad-checking features to US fact checkers, and the company says it will communicate with international fact checkers before it launches overseas.

Source: The Guardian October 26, 2019 07:52 UTC