In a Facebook post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the new feature, called Get The Facts, will debunk misinformation about the COVID-19 crisis. This will be part of a section of the company's COVID-19 Information Centre featuring articles written by independent fact-checking partners. "We're also launching a new feature called Get The Facts, a section of our COVID-19 Information Center featuring articles written by independent fact-checking partners debunking misinformation about the coronavirus. He further added that over 2 billion people on Facebook and the company's image sharing platform Instagram have been redirected to authoritative health resources. In March, we displayed warnings on about 40 million posts related to Covid-19 based on 4,000 articles reviewed by independent fact-checkers.

Source: dna April 16, 2020 18:00 UTC