Facebook starts fact-checking partnership with Reuters

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it has reached an agreement with news agency Reuters, a unit of Thomson Reuters Corp, to fact-check content posted on the social media platform and its photo-sharing app Instagram. Under pressure to remove fake news on its platform ahead of the U.S. presidential elections, Facebook started a U.S. pilot programme in December to detect misinformation faster. The move came after U.S. intelligence agencies said that social media platforms were used in a..