Journalists working as fact-checkers for Facebook have
pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social
network, saying the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use
their expertise to combat misinformation.
Current and former Facebook fact-checkers told the Guardian that the
tech platform’s collaboration with outside reporters has produced
minimal results and that they’ve lost trust in Facebook, which has
repeatedly refused to release meaningful data about the impacts of their
work. Some said Facebook’s hiring of a PR firm that used an antisemitic narrative to discredit critics – fueling the same kind of propaganda fact-checkers regularly debunk – should be a deal-breaker.
“They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski,
former managing editor of Snopes, a fact-checking site that has
partnered with Facebook for two years. “They’re not taking anything
seriously. They are more interested in making themselves look good and
passing the buck … They clearly don’t care.”
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