Facebook announced the expansion of its third-party fact-checking program to 10 African countries including: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon and Senegal.
This programme forms part of its work in helping assess the accuracy and quality of news people find on Facebook, whilst reducing the spread of misinformation on its platform. Feedback from users in the Facebook community is one of many signals Facebook uses to raise potentially false stories to fact-checkers for review. Local articles will be fact-checked alongside the verification of photos and videos.
If one of our fact-checking partners identifies a story as false, Facebook will show it lower in News Feed, significantly reducing its distribution. When third-party fact-checkers fact-check a news story, Facebook will show these in related stories immediately below the story in News Feed.
Page Admins and people on Facebook will also receive notifications if they try to share a story or have shared one in the past that's been determined to be false, empowering people to decide for themselves what to read, trust, and share.
