“They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski, former managing editor of Snopes, a factchecking site that has partnered with Facebook for two years. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, was reported to have directed her staff to research George Soros’s financial interests after he publicly criticized the company. Asked of the impacts of her site’s work, she said, “Is it reducing fake content on Facebook? In an interview, he also said he did not share Binkowski’s concerns about the Facebook partnership and said he felt it has had a minimal impact on how Snopes operates. “Our work remains the same,” he said, adding that he did not expect Facebook to share data on how Snopes’s work is affecting other publishers.

Source: The Guardian December 13, 2018 08:00 UTC