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From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009

posted December 13, 2018 10:21 AM            

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'They don't care': Facebook fact-checking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties
Sam Levin in San Francisco

Journalists working as fact-checkers for Facebook have pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social network, saying the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use their expertise to combat misinformation.

Current and former Facebook fact-checkers told the Guardian that the tech platform’s collaboration with outside reporters has produced minimal results and that they’ve lost trust in Facebook, which has repeatedly refused to release meaningful data about the impacts of their work. Some said Facebook’s hiring of a PR firm that used an antisemitic narrative to discredit critics – fueling the same kind of propaganda fact-checkers regularly debunk – should be a deal-breaker....
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/13/they-dont-care-facebook-fact-checking-in-disarray-as-journalists-push-to-cut-ties

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From: Lyra
Registered: Apr 2009

posted December 14, 2018 08:19 AM            

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Agree with you. Also, Zuckerberg has been compromised by the Russian Mafia since 2009.

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