{"id":3395,"date":"2021-10-24T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/24\/facebook-rolls-out-campaign-to-fight-misinformation-ahead-of-australian-election\/"},"modified":"2021-10-24T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T15:36:22","slug":"facebook-rolls-out-campaign-to-fight-misinformation-ahead-of-australian-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/24\/facebook-rolls-out-campaign-to-fight-misinformation-ahead-of-australian-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook rolls out campaign to fight misinformation ahead of Australian election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant teams up with newswire AAP to push videos encouraging voters to critically examine facts<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and the Australian Associated Press newswire service will roll out \u201ccheck the facts\u201d videos over the next month as the social media giant prepares for a federal election campaign that could be filled with misinformation and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The videos, to be pushed in Australia on the Facebook and Instagram platforms until 24 November, will encourage people to critically examine information they are presented with and improve their overall media literacy. AAP will also provide material on how to identify misinformation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/25\/facebook-rolls-out-campaign-to-fight-misinformation-ahead-of-australian-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/afc4a3293af6211f049ef254f96ae2052afb4d92\/0_114_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7ea61504fc968fa05ad206d129399422\" title=\"Facebook rolls out campaign to fight misinformation ahead of Australian election\" \/>Social media giant teams up with newswire AAP to push videos encouraging voters to critically examine facts<br \/>\nFacebook and the Australian Associated Press newswire service will roll out \u201ccheck the facts\u201d videos over the next month as the social media giant prepares for a federal election campaign that could be filled with misinformation and disinformation.<br \/>\nThe videos, to be pushed in Australia on the Facebook and Instagram platforms until 24 November, will encourage people to critically examine information they are presented with and improve their overall media literacy. AAP will also provide material on how to identify misinformation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant teams up with newswire AAP to push videos encouraging voters to critically examine facts Facebook and the Australian Associated Press newswire service will roll out \u201ccheck the facts\u201d videos over the next month as the social media giant prepares for a federal election campaign that could be filled with misinformation and disinformation. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/24\/facebook-rolls-out-campaign-to-fight-misinformation-ahead-of-australian-election\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook rolls out campaign to fight misinformation ahead of Australian election<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}