Meta, their parent company, will broadcast teaching videos on false information and put in place with the France Agency Presse a Verification Service of the Content on Social Networks.
The Meta Group announced, on February 16, a series of new partnerships with French media, upstream of the presidential election and the legislative elections, to “help citizens read and decrypt online information” , says the group in a communiqué . Most of these partnerships are based on the dissemination of teaching messages on false information and associate Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to the Loopsider, France 24 and the France-Press agency (AFP).
For the first time, in the elections in France, the group will also put in place, with AFP, a verification service, allowing users to transmit WhatsApp messages to the news agency, which can ” Share back on WhatsApp Checking articles of shared contents “.
Meta will also put in place in the coming days a virtual team dedicated to the security of the elections, which will bring together employees in France supported by specialists in interference operations in the United States and elsewhere in the world. To date, no transaction of electoral influence has been detected, but we remain vigilant, “said, at a press conference, Anton Batteti, head of the Department of Public Affairs of Meta France.
Meta also provides to broadcast to all of its users in metropolitan France messages reminiscent of the dates of elections, as Facebook had already done it in 2017.