Facebook pushes back on claims that outside fact-checking is a PR stunt

Facebook is pushing back on claims that its work with third-party fact-checkers amounts to little more than "crisis PR."

That's how one former employee of Snopes, one of the fact-checking websites that works directly with Facebook to debunk misinformation in News Feed, described her previous work with the company.

In a report published in The Guardian, the former Snopes employee says Facebook "essentially used us for crisis PR," and that "they are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck." The same employee alleged that Facebook had, at times, prioritized "debunking misinformation that affected Facebook advertisers" and had failed to take repeated warnings about the situation in Myanmar seriously. Read more...