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Meta expands Fact-Checking Program in India; adds NewsMeter as partner

Meta partners with NewsMeter to help connect people to accurate and verified information and enhance Meta’s fact-checking capabilities in regional Indian languages.

Meta is expanding its third-party fact-checking program in India to include NewsMeter, a fact checker primarily focused on the southern states in the country. The partnership will help connect people to accurate and verified information and enhance Meta’s fact-checking capabilities in regional Indian languages including Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil.

Globally, Meta works with more than 80 fact-checking partners that review and rate content in over 60 languages. All of Meta’s fact-checking partners have been certified through the independent, non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network. With this partnership, Meta will have 11 Fact-checking partners in India, making it the country with the most number of third-party fact-checking partners globally. In addition, Meta has also expanded its Indian language coverage from 11 to 15 through its existing fact-checking partners to include Kashmiri, Bhojpuri, Oriya and Nepali.

Each time a fact-checker rates a piece of content as false, altered or partly false, the platform reduces its distribution so that fewer people see it. They notify people who try to share the content – or who previously shared it – that the information was rated by a fact-checker, and then they add a warning label that links to the fact-checkers article with more information about the claim.

To help address the industry-wide issue of misinformation online, Meta also has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) to fund a fact-checking news fellowship program designed exclusively for Indian news organisations.

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Manish Chopra, Director and Head of Partnerships, India at Meta said, “We are committed to combating the spread of misinformation and have built the largest global fact-checking network. The partnership with NewsMeter is an important step in enabling us to curb misinformation in regional Indian languages across Facebook and Instagram.”

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