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In Facebook’s Effort to Fight Fake News, Human Fact-Checkers Struggle to Keep Up

Facebook, Facts And Fact Checking, Fake News
Posted on AllSides October 18th, 2018
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The social network’s algorithms scan billions of posts each day in hopes of flagging misinformation before it goes viral; humans can’t keep up.

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