Fact-checking fake news on Facebook works - just too slowly
NEW YORK (AP) " Facebook's effort to limit the spread of fake news using outside fact-checkers appears to be having an effect " though that finding comes with a major caveat.Once a story receives a false rating from a fact-checker, Facebook says, subsequent "impressions" can fall off by 80 percent. Impressions count the number of times Facebook users see a particular post.But it routinely takes more than three days for a story to receive a false rating. And most impressions [...]
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