Facebook says has made headway against abuses ahead of India election

FILE PHOTO: A man reads a newspaper at the reception area of Facebook's office in Mumbai, May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File Photo

MENLO PARK, California: Facebook has said it has made strides in its efforts to prevent online abuses in the Indian national election that starts this week but acknowledged that gaps remain in its "election integrity" efforts.

During a media tour of the company's election operations centre at its Menlo Park headquarters in California on April 5, company officials touted new fact-checking efforts for suppressing misinformation and technological advances such as the ability to detect when videos had been doctored.