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17 Feb

Meta adopts a comprehensive strategy to keep people safe

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Meta is sharing an update on how Meta is prepared to protect people and its platform during this period.Meta has a comprehensive strategy in place for the elections, which includes detecting and removing hate speech and content that incites violence, reducing the spread of misinformation, making political advertising more transparent, partnering with election authorities to remove content that violates local law and helping people make their voices heard through voting. Meta we’ll be activating its Elections Operations Center so it can monitor and respond to potential abuses that emerge related to these elections in real time. Since 2018, Meta used…

Meta partners with FICCI

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Meta, under its #SheMeansBusiness program has partnered with FICCI’s ‘Empowering the Greater 50%’ to enable and support 5 lakh women-led small businesses across India. The announcement was made during Meta’s inaugural National Women Entrepreneurship Summit to encourage industry dialogue and steps to support the MSMEs across sectors. Access to capital and relevant digital tools remain the leading issues faced by women led businesses. Out of over 63 million small businesses in India, approximately 20% are owned by women highlighting the need to bring more gender equality. Together with FICCI, Meta will address the barrier to access right digital tools and…

Meta announces enforcement on ads around social issues

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Meta has announced the launch of enforcement around ads on social issues in India. Rolled out earlier this month, the enforcement will require anyone running ads on social issues on Facebook and Instagram to be authorized and include disclaimers on their ads, enabling people to see the name of the person or organization running these ads.Meta has made significant investments in teams and technologies to better protect elections, empower people to vote and create a safe platform to share diverse beliefs. Ahead of the 2019 General Elections in India, advertisers in India that wanted to run electoral and political ads…