Facebook expands its fact-checking project to Italy | Poynter

Facebook announced Tuesday that, starting next week, it will partner with fact-checking outlet Pagella Politica to cut down on the amount of misinformation on the social media platform. The move makes Italy the fifth country where fact-checking organizations are reviewing fake stories through a dedicated mechanism on Facebook, after the United States, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The feature, which was launched in December 2016, gives fact-checkers the ability to comb through viral stories on Facebook and — if deemed false — append further context in a related articles section. This signal could result in the story being algorithmically lowered in the News Feed, and users who shared it will receive notifications saying it’s disputed (Belonging to the International Fact-Checking Network is a necessary condition for Facebook’s fact-checking partners).