Pakistan, March 18 -- Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced plans to fight false content and deepfakes in Australia. With a national election coming up in May, the company wants to limit misinformation on its platforms. They stated they would remove any content that could cause violence or interfere with voting.

Cheryl Seeto, Meta's Head of Policy in Australia, explained that they will add warning labels to content checked by fact-checkers. This means that misleading information will be shown less in users' feeds. Meta will also work with news agencies like Agence France-Presse to help check content for accuracy.

Meta is also dealing with deepfakes, which are fake videos or images made by AI that look real. They...