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In its newest attempt to stem the flood of fake news and conspiracy theories online, Facebook plans to sign up a conservative US magazine, the Weekly Standard, as a fact-checking partner, according to several people briefed on talks between the two companies.
Facebook said it would started working with fact-checking websites such as Snopes and PolitiFact in the US last December, who follow a code of principles approved by the USs Poynter Institute, a journalism school. Facebook users can flag stories they think are false, which Facebook then circulates to these partners (it pays them for the service). If fact-checkers find it to be false, users who subsequently try to share the story on Facebook see a warning telling them it has been disputed.
However, none of the organizations on Poynters list are conservative-leaning. Right-wing American news outlets and politicians have complained in the past that they think Facebook has a liberal bias. Breitbart News, the white nationalist sympathizing website run by former White House advisor Steve Bannon, said Facebooks fact-checking partners all have records of left-wing partisanshipparticularly throughout the 2016 election. (Most consider themselves non-partisan.)
The new partnership, therefore, is part of Facebooks attempt to appease all sides, said one person briefed on the discussions. There are legitimate publications that write from a conservative point of view, and they are fact-based, he said.
https://qz.com/1095509/facebooks-latest-solution-to-its-fake-news-problem-sign-on-a-right-wing-fact-checker/
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)pbmus
(12,418 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)That's an idea DT has been pushing. Objective truth doesn't exist in his view. Truth is whatever he says it is.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Is this fake? Nyet!