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Snopes Quits Fact-Checking Partnership With Facebook (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook, which has been ramping its efforts to curb misinformation on its services since the 2016 U.S. election. Facebook and Snopes had been working together since December 2016 to fact check content on the social network. The company in 2017 paid Snopes as much as $100,000 for the work, according to Snopes. "At this time we are evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services, and we want to determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff," Snopes said in a statement.
Snopes said it has not closed the door on working with the company again, but it encouraged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to meet "with fact-checkers as part of his recently announced series of public discussions" in 2019. The partnership is ending weeks after a report by The Guardian, in which multiple former Snopes employees criticized Facebook's efforts to stop fake content on its services.
Snopes said it has not closed the door on working with the company again, but it encouraged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to meet "with fact-checkers as part of his recently announced series of public discussions" in 2019. The partnership is ending weeks after a report by The Guardian, in which multiple former Snopes employees criticized Facebook's efforts to stop fake content on its services.
I've read the whole comment section and I'm still waiting to see a single genuine example of Snopes "pushing opinions as fact".
Since you're too lazy to oogle it yourself, how about the one where Snopes Lies About the Glorious State of California’s Plan To Teach 5-Year-Olds Transgenderism?
Reading your comment it sounds like you don't understand what a journalist is and what the responsibilities of that title bring. Opinion is not journalism. If I need to explain that difference then this discussion is pointless. I never claimed to be a journalist and therefore do not adhere to any standard of professionalism in my writing. Everyone knows that if they read my comments that they are getting penandpaper's opinion and basic rules of argument and logic apply. No one cares what I think and I do not have the ear of millions. I cannot through my writing take our country to war, like in the Spanish American war propagandized by Yellow Journalism. If that is the kind of journalism you want then I weep for the future.
Journalists can speak their mind. No one is taking that away from them but when their "speak their mind" is masked behind "this is the facts because I am a journalist trust me" and they lie that harm people then there is a problem. When they don't even do basics of fact gathering and checking then there is a problem. When their reporting amounts to copy paste crap then it is not journalism. When they continueally get it wrong and have to make retractions then they are doing poor journalism. When they make retractions hardly noticeable then they are acting in bad faith.
I hope that the Covington kid sues the crap out of the "journalists" that slandered and libeled his name. I hope that some kind of integrity comes back to journalism. I hope you eventually understand that journalism has power and therefore responsibility. The media, by their actions, are causing harm and acting irresponsibly. A media that undermines the very basic ideal of "informing the general populous" are no friend to the people.