Viafoura Offers News Publishers Complimentary Live Blog Platform

Digital platform Viafoura is offering its live-blogging platform free of charge to news media companies throughout the pandemic.

In an announcement today, Viafoura said: “At the moment, there is a massive amount of misinformation related to the virus spreading on social platforms. Our goal is to help publishers improve the trustworthy nature of the content on their own properties to keep individuals away from misinformation and form lasting social connections in respectable spaces online.”

Viafoura’s CEO and founder Jesse Moeinifar, said: “In light of the growing demand for reliable news, media companies are becoming overworked as they ramp up production of trustworthy content while protecting their staff from COVID-19. We want to make sure that the public is getting and sticking with news from credible sources during these difficult times without seeing news companies burn out.

“As a company that is now operating remotely based on the recommendation of health professionals, we understand firsthand how important efficiency is online,” Moeinifar added. “Our priority right now is to work together with media companies to make sure everyone’s families are well-informed, digitally connected and safe.”

News organizations that are interested in this free live blogging tool can get in touch with Viafoura.

Viafoura helps more than 600 media, broadcast, and entertainment brands better build, manage and monetize their content, audience, and data in real-time, powering more than 1.5 billion interactions across 350 million active users. Through a mix of AI, user-to-user and human moderation across a variety of community engagement tools, Viafoura helps users create a trusted, digital environment.

The Viafoura community-building solution includes user registration and profile management, protected commenting, live chat, live blogging, ratings and reviews and data insights.