There’s no doubt Facebook is infested with fake news. But contracting with ‘Left Leaning AP and Snopes‘ is inviting more undue censorship in the social network.
It’s said to be rolling out today, so we will see how it goes. We use Hootsuite to share articles on both desktop and smartphone app. It’ll be interesting what happens to fake news shared from services / apps.
@facebook is working with "fact checkers" – the best people in the world to ensure trustworthy content #PressFreedom pic.twitter.com/WMlIFAMAoO
— Max von Abendroth (@bxlmax) March 23, 2017
Fox News had this to say earlier today.
Personally we’re thinking these so called “Fact Checkers” will be rejecting good articles as fake news, to further censor Trump supporters.
Oh well.. Just my two cent’s worth as usual.. 😉