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The partnership will enable PTI to identify, review and rate content as misinformation across Meta platforms.
To prevent the spread of misinformation and provide its users with more reliable information, Meta partners with independent third-party fact-checkers that are certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network and identify, review and rate viral misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Globally, the company has built one of the largest independent fact-checking networks, with nearly 100 partners around the world to review and rate viral misinformation in more than 60 languages.
With the partnership with the PTI, Meta now has 12 fact-checking partners in India, the highest it has in any country, the company said in a statement.
It covers 16 Indian languages through existing fact-checking partners – Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Punjabi, Assamese, Manipuri/ Meitei, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Kashmiri, Bhojpuri, Oriya and Nepali – besides English.
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Each time a fact-checker rates a piece of content as false, altered or partly false, Meta reduces its distribution so that fewer people see it.
It notifies people who try to share the content – or who previously shared it – that the information was rated by a fact-checker, and adds a warning label that links to the fact-checker’s article with more information about the claim.
Since 2016, Meta’s fact-checking programme has expanded to include nearly 100 organisations globally.
The focus of the programme is to address viral misinformation, particularly clear hoaxes that have no basis in fact, according to the company. Fact-checking partners prioritise provably false claims that are timely, trending and consequential, it said.