40K people working to safeguard global elections online: Meta
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New Delhi: As the world's elections continue to take centre stage in 2024, Meta, the business that offers popular apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has declared that no internet company is investing more than the social media giant to safeguard elections online.
According to the company, it currently employs over 40,000 people worldwide to protect elections online.
The social media giant claimed that it has invested more than $20 billion so far in building teams and technology to protect elections online.
General elections will be held in South Africa on May 29 this year.
“As the election approaches, we’ll activate a South Africa-specific Elections Operations Centre to identify potential threats and put mitigations in place in real-time,” Meta said in a statement.
The company said it has the largest fact-checking network with partners in South Africa, fact-checking in English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Sotho, and Setswana languages.
“We have been working directly with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to help prepare for the elections,” the company informed.
The company said it has made it easier for its fact-checking partners in South Africa to “find and rate content related to the elections”.
“We’ll use keyword detection to group related content in one place, making it easy for fact-checkers to find.”
Before the election day, Meta will launch its ‘Voter Information Unit’ and ‘Election Day Reminder’ features on both the Facebook and Instagram platforms.
With inputs from IANS
