Karachi, September 02, 2020: Facebook has launched a new product in Pakistan to help limit the spread of misinformation and to provide people using the platform with additional context before they share images that are more than a year old and that could be potentially harmful or misleading. “We’re empowering people to detect misleading content…
Karachi, August 12, 2020: Facebook announced the winners of its Foundation Integrity Research: Misinformation and Polarization request for proposals. Among the global list of winners are Ayesha Ali, Agha Ali Raza and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), whose proposal shone during the competitive selection process. Misinformation and polarization are fundamental…
Karachi, April 23, 2020: The platform has been designed and engineered by 40+ top merit students and doctors from scratch to combat the spread of misinformation and help educate students and the public with authentic, verified, reliable information that is research and science backed. MedAngle is a medical education platform used by thousands of students…
Karachi, September 5, 2019: In order to combat misinformation related to vaccine, Facebook has launched an in-product education tool that allows its users in Pakistan to connect to information about vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO). This in-product education unit, available in Urdu, will help to connect people to authoritative information about vaccines and…