Meta's counter to hate speech: Ten fact checkers in 11 languages

Meta, the rebranded parent company of the Facebook family of apps, has invested in setting up one of the largest networks of third party fact checkers in India, a top executive has said.

In an email interview with Business Standard, Meta’s Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, said a network of 10 fact checkers working in 11 Indian languages cover India. For the US market, an equal number of fact checkers are involved.

Meta also has people reviewing potentially problematic content in 20 Indian languages. Then there are hate speech classifiers (automated detection technology) in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and