Facebook starts fact-checking partnership with Reuters
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FACEBOOK AND FIVE US NEWS and fact-checking organizations—ABC News, the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and Snopes—created a partnership to combat misinformation shortly after the 2016 US presidential election. When it was launched, it was variously seen as a public relations stunt, a new type of collaboration, or an unavoidable coupling of organizations through circumstances beyond their exclusive control.
Exclusive: New Facebook partnership tackles health misinformation
Facebook is partnering with a global tech non-profit called Meedan to give its 80+ fact-checking partner organizations access to training from experts in how to handle health and vaccine misinformation, a spokesperson tells Axios.
By the numbers: Facebook has spent $84 million on programs supporting its fact-checking efforts through the Facebook Journalism Project in the past five years.
- It relies on third-party fact-checkers to police misinformation so it's not on the hook itself for making tough calls on controversial material.
