New Delhi, Tech Desk. Social media platform Facebook said on Wednesday that the strictest action will be taken against such people, who are repeatedly working to spread misleading information from the Facebook platform.
Social media giant Facebook said in a blog post that if false information has been shared with Facebook account more than once and it was caught by our Facebook Fact Check team, then the post of such Facebook account can be found in the news feed. Will be removed.
Also the spread of such posts will be reduced. According to Facebook, the company is working on a new tool, which will help in delivering the right content to the people.
The role of the fact checking team is going to be very important in this.
Flood of fake news on Facebook
According to the news agency Reuters, during the COVID-19 epidemic, the spread of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, false claims and misleading information has increased.
However, Facebook claims, the company is increasingly working towards curbing fake news related to Covid-19, vaccination, climate change and elections.
According to Facebook, about 1.3 billion fake Facebook accounts have been blocked during October to December last year.
Facebook will follow new IT rules
Significantly, new IT rules have been introduced by the central government to prevent the spread of fake and misleading news, which all social media platforms have to obey.
In this case, Facebook has said that it will follow the provisions of the IT rules and some issues are under negotiation.
A Facebook spokesperson said that our goal is to follow the provisions of the IT rules and continue to discuss some issues that require talking with the government.
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