Facebook will show location on Pages and Instagram accounts with a lot of reach

Facebook will display the location of the poster on Instagram accounts and Facebook Pages. The company has announced that. The measure should make it easier for users to check whether it is a real page or a real account.

The test with the display will run in the United States, Facebook reports. The test runs specifically on Instagram accounts and Facebook pages that are popular in the US, but whose posters are not from the US.

For a few years now, users have been able to look up the location of a page, but now it’s added to every post. The move should make it clearer ‘who is behind the posts that users see’, according to the company.

The initiative also aims to protect elections. Earlier elections showed that some countries try to steer elections in other countries in a certain direction through fake news. These and other measures should make that more difficult. It is still unknown if and when the function will also be available in the Benelux.