Charity urges Facebook to extend fact-checking to Instagram
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#4M6H3)
UK fact-checking organisation Full Fact offers 10 suggestions for improvements
Facebook should immediately extend its fact-checking programme to also cover Instagram, according to Full Fact, a journalism charity that was the first UK member of the scheme.
"We do not see why the third-party fact-checking programme cannot be fully expanded to Instagram," Full Fact said in its report on the first six months of the programme. "The potential to prevent harm is high here, and there are known risks of health misinformation on the platform."
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