Facebook has taken it upon itself to partner with fact checkers to make sure fake news isn’t getting pushed on their site. Among the fact checkers chosen is Snopes …
Yeah. We laughed out loud for a good five minutes as well. Go ahead, keep laughing.
It’s hilarious. Picking a site that’s rumored to be liberally biased to fact check fake news is a hoot. Leave it to Zuckerberg.
Facebook partners with Snopes and other fact checkers to label and bury "fake news" in News Feed https://t.co/Ulal7vxttF
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 15, 2016
Once fact checkers have confirmed that a story is fake, it will be labeled as such & demoted in Facebook's News Feed https://t.co/Ulal7vxttF
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 15, 2016
Demoted? Oh noez! Demoted on facebook?! Say it ain’t so!
HA HA HA HA ! SNOPES…HA HA HA . fact checkers, HA HA HA!
— psl (@SkePatt) December 15, 2016
See, we laughed too.
Ministry of Truth.
— Kirk Nightingale (@Rowd1e) December 15, 2016
Ok well that’s just dark, we’d prefer to go the route of hilarious and mockery but that’s also a fair point. Who decides what is fake and if the fact checker making that determination is as biased as we think it is, what happens to real news they just happen not to approve of … yikes.
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I stopped checking Snopes a long time ago…and
have never checked FB for anything…that is relevant— Black_Raven135 (@RosaleeAdams) December 15, 2016
Most people use Facebook for recipes, cat memes and for checking to see if that mean girl they went to school with got fat. That’s about it, BUT for those who do use the site for news, the fact checkers Zuckerberg is picking are a tad disconcerting.
What a horrible idea.
— finman (@finman2010) December 15, 2016
Unfortunately, "fact checkers" have their own biases. Being neutral and only beholden to facts is a facade.This helps nothing.
— Chris Cornwell (@jccornwell) December 15, 2016
Who will Fact Check the Fact Checkers?
— Eric Demamp (@ericdemamp) December 15, 2016
Bingo.
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