The Third-Party programme is to help assess the accuracy of news and reduce the spread of misinformation. According to her, if one of Facebook’s fact-checking partners identifies a story as false, Facebook will show it lower in News Feed, significantly reducing its distribution. “With this new partnership, we aim to build on the work we already started in Nigeria. “Nigeria is important to us and we are committed to taking our responsibility seriously in tackling the spread of false news,” she said in a statement. “In recent years, we have seen democracies all over the world, being threatened by the spread of false news.

Source: The Guardian February 04, 2019 12:11 UTC