Facebook: Fighting problem of misinformation

New Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook said it is fighting the problem of misinformation which it classified under three categories: virality, coordinated behaviour and civic harm, and stressed that over the past six months, it has taken down a billion fake accounts to address the issue. “There are bad actors, bad behaviour and bad content…I can’t check human behaviour but I can check how people behave on my platform,” said Shivnath Thukral, public policy director, India for Facebook.

“There isn’t a single ad pertaining to politics where you can’t find who paid how much and for how long and the targeted people. We have community standards within which it is determined what is allowed, what is not, and that is very critical,” he explained.