Snopes & AP Suddenly Quit As Facebook Fact-Checkers

[Ptarmigan]

Snopes & AP Suddenly Quit As Facebook Fact-Checkers
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-02/snopes-ap-suddenly-quit-facebook-fact-checkers

Two of Facebook's four fact checkers, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their fact-checking relationship with the social media giant. In a Friday press release, Snopes said that it had "elected not to renew our partnership with Facebook," and while declining to reveal specifics, added that "Forgoing an economic opportunity is not a decision that we or any other journalistic enterprise can take lightly."

While Snopes initially agreed to fact check for free, they eventually accepted $100,000 for its fact-checking services last year.

The announcement comes on the heels of a December report that the two-year relationship between Facebook and its fact checkers was in disarray.

Fact-checking is just lip service.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Read somewhere reputable that Facebook has 15,000 internal "content moderators".

[SVPete]

I muse FB for family/friends stuff and AFAIK have never clicked a "news" story link. I assume most are clickbait of dubious veracity/accuracy/currency and ignore them if I even notice them.

[SVPete]

Read somewhere reputable that Facebook has 15,000 internal "content moderators".

Sharp Al has his own FB page, and Calypso Louie has an "official" fan page on FB. So FB's "content monitors" underwhelm me.

[Eupher]

Anybody even halfway in bed with Zuckerbooger is automatically biased. Their "fact-checking" is about as firm as a pile of Cool Whip.