Snopes quits fact-checking partnership with Facebook

[WhiskeyWulf]

http://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/snopes-leaves-facebook-fact-check-program.html

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.

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"They've essentially used us for crisis PR," one former employee told The Guardian.

[Rainbow Droid]

1. They paid Snopes 'as much as 100k' for Fact Checking on Facebook over the course of a year.

A clear example of Facebook's dedication to Facts.

[WhiskeyWulf]

2. Yeah, that didn't seem like much! nt

[Rainbow Droid]

3. For a company with 85b in assets and 2.2b users? It's The New Propaganda after all...

[lpbk2713]

4. Facebook can't be trusted.

They're getting to be more like Faux every day.

[WhiskeyWulf]

5. I don't have a FB account partly for privacy reasons.

And partly because I just really don't *want* to keep in touch with everyone I've ever known.

[lpbk2713]

6. Same here. I don't do any social networking.

I value my privacy. Very few people even know my email addy.