We don’t know what is actually happening,” said Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, which verifies Facebook’s third-party factcheckers. “The relationship they have with fact-checking organizations is way too little and way too late. “They are basically buying good PR by paying us.”The journalist noted that Facebook users could still easily purchase ads without scrutiny. (Facebook responded that the research was not based on data from real Facebook users and noted that it was an “opt-in study” based on paid survey respondents.) In the case of an article that falsely claimed the shooter was linked to anti-fascist groups, multiple factcheckers debunked the piece.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 08:01 UTC