By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 10th December:- Helo, the leading social media
platform, further strengthens its existing safety features and content
moderation policies, making them available in 14
Indian regional languages. This is as part of their growing
commitment to provide a safe in-app
experience for its community, including a recent partnership with
an internationally acclaimed fact checker to counter misinformation and fake
news.
Commenting on these safety endeavours, Shyamanga Barooah,
Head of Content Operations, Helo said that maintaining a safe and positive in-app environment is
paramount to us, which is why we continuously
enhance and update our policies, safety tools, and online resources. Taking a
step ahead in this direction, we are delighted to collaborate with an
independent, third-party fact checker to reduce the prevalence of fake news on
our platform.
Helo has partnered with third-party fact-checkers like the
Jagran Group, certified by International Fact Check Network and Poynter
Institute to further intensify its efforts in minimising misinformation and
fake news in the online community.
Further, the platform has also advanced
its in-app safety measures with 13 new
safety features. Some of these new features include In-app Reporting,
Privacy Settings, Restricted Mode, Parental Control and Comment Filter, to name
a few. With the ‘In-app Reporting’ feature, users have greater
control over their feed and are able to report content or profiles that violate
the Community Guidelines.
Helo’s community guidelines are now available in 14 Indian
languages -Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada,
Malayalam, Oriya to name a few. A detailed version of these guidelines is
externally available. Helo creates a safe in-app environment that encourages
the exchange of perspectives and sharing of information, across a diverse array
of cultures and beliefs.
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