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Meta and its platforms might want to hold content material moderation in verify
Meta goes to be closely concerned in content material era and sharing over the course of 2024 and it’ll want the moderation group to be geared up to deal with it
Meta, which gives well-liked apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has mentioned that as world elections proceed to dominate headlines in 2024, no tech firm is investing extra to guard elections on-line than the social media big.
The firm mentioned that at present, it has greater than 40,000 folks engaged on safeguarding elections on-line worldwide.
The social media big claimed that it has invested greater than $20 billion up to now in constructing groups and expertise to guard elections on-line. General elections might be held in South Africa on May 29 this yr.
“As the election approaches, we’ll activate a South Africa-specific Elections Operations Centre to identify potential threats and put mitigations in place in real time,” Meta mentioned in a press release.
The firm mentioned it has the most important reality-checking community with companions in South Africa, reality checking in English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Sotho, and Setswana languages. “We have been working directly with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to help prepare for the elections,” the corporate knowledgeable.
The firm mentioned it has made it simpler for its reality-checking companions in South Africa to “find and rate content related to the elections”. “We’ll use keyword detection to group related content in one place, making it easy for fact-checkers to find.”
Before the election day, Meta will launch its ‘Voter Information Unit’ and ‘Election Day Reminder’ options on each the Facebook and Instagram platforms.
