Introduces MIDO as Facebook’s fourth Intermediary Information Examiner

Facebook introduced the Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO) as its fourth partner to join its third-party fact-checking program in Myanmar as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation and help build an informed community.

MIDO, which has been certified by the Poynter Institute’s non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), will review and rate the accuracy of Burmese stories on Facebook, including photos and videos in Myanmar.

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When third-party fact-checkers rate a story as false, it will appear lower in News Feed, significantly reducing its distribution. Pages and domains that repeatedly share false news will also see their distribution reduced and their ability to monetize and advertise removed.

Once a story is rated as false, altered, or partly false, we show it lower in the News Feed. And on Instagram, we make it harder to find by filtering from Explore and hashtag pages and downranking it in Feed.

In addition, content across Facebook and Instagram that has been rated false or altered is prominently labeled so people can better decide for themselves what to read, trust, and share. These labels are shown on top of false and altered photos and videos, including on top of Stories content on Instagram and link out to the assessment from the fact-checker. Photo Source https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/update-on-election-integrity-efforts/

Facebook’s fact-checking program started in December 2016. Today, we have over 70 partners fact-checking content in over 60 languages. The program also relies on feedback from the Facebook community, as a signal to raise potentially false stories to fact-checkers for review.

This announcement follows Facebook’s continued efforts to curb false news and building an informed community.