Fighting fake news

Two Philippine media organisations are made partner by Facebook in its "Third-party fact checking" program. Image : Ellen Tordesillas in a recent Senate hearing about fake news (Youtube)

Vera Files and Rappler are chosen to mitigate  the proliferation of so-called "fake news".

Ellen Tordesillas, president of Vera Files, tells SBS Filipino on how  they were chosen and explains how the program works.

She also further vows to fight fake news.