Meta Platforms, TikTok to Employ Fact-Checkers After Deadly Spanish Enclave Unrest
MT Newswires Live
Aug 11
Meta Platforms (META) and ByteDance's TikTok are taking steps to vet posts after the deadly surge of Moroccans into a Spanish enclave in north Africa last month, the European Commission's Digital Affairs Chief Henna Virkkunen said late Monday.
"TikTok and Meta have activated crisis protocols and have now put in place an ad-hoc escalation and cooperation mechanism with fact-checkers," Virkkunen said in a post on social media platform X.
She said regulators will continue to work with the social media platforms to "stifle criminal networks selling false promises, at the cost of lives."
Meta and TikTok did not immediately reply to MT Newswires' request for comment.
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