Social media giant Facebook will crack down on misinformation leading up to the European Parliament elections this month. It has partnered with the Greek organisation Ellinika Hoaxes in fact-checking its Greek platform.
There will be fact-checks in 14 languages – Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish – and collaborations between Facebook and 21 European Union partners that are accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
The effort is part of the FactCheckEU project that aims to ensure that content related to the European Parliament is not falsified in the lead-up to the election.
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“The cooperation with Facebook will provide us with far more capabilities to deal instantly with the scourge of misinformation, which constitutes a threat to the foundations of democracy,” said Theodoros Daniilidis, the founder of Ellinika Hoaxes.
