Top social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have agreed to work together to put an end to fake news reporting and hoaxes online using their platforms.
According to information reaching us, the decision was made possible by
the collective efforts of the partnership called First Draft, representatives of media and social media as well as stake holders in the academe and human rights groups to help screen information and correct false data that often get undue attention in the web.
The director First Draft had this to say;
"We live in a time when trust and truth are issues that all newsrooms, and increasingly the social platforms themselves, are facing," Jenni Sargent."
"Each partner is committed to sharing knowledge, developing policies and devising training in how journalists use the social web to find and report news."
The organisation choose to work with these two social media platform due to their large number of users. Facebook alone with over 1.7 billion visitors a day was a major target so to enable fix this issue of fake news reporting online.
I am certain this new development is going to go along way in restructuring the media especially in Nigeria where people use Facebook to abuse the government and the government in return uses the same medium to mislead her people.
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