Meta’s plans to combat election disinformation

Meta has set up an operations centre for the South African elections “to identify potential threats and put mitigations in place in real time.”

In a statement they also explain measures to combat misinformation and take action against harmful content on their platforms; and how they work with independent fact-checking organisations such as Africa Check and AFP to check content in English and some local languages, including Afrikaans, Zulu, Sotho and Setswana. .

In addition, an SA election resource centre assists government, political and non-profit organisations in securing their accounts and how to engage voters with authoritative information.