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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.
Snopes is a partisan tool.
Snopes got raped. Minimum ask towards fb should be $2.5m/month, based on their scale. Proves that Snopes is just another group of stupid fuckers who think they're smart because they have the internet.
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Snopes can, and in my opinion does, choose to ignore fact checking subjects that might reveal results damaging to his personal agenda. Facts have no bias. The way you present facts can have bias. You do understand that, right?
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
As you and the person who modded you up demonstrated very well that line of attack still works.
The media is never going to be perfect and it's beyond foolish to expect infalliability. In fact the tactic of "it's not prefect therefore it's worthless" is one of the most common tools in the arsenal of people trying to discredit the media.
SJW n. One who posts facts.