It’s Official: Facebook’s Fact-Checking Is Making Its Fake News Problem Even Worse
Posted on AllSides March 5th, 2020
From The Left
Four years after Facebook decided it needed to do something something to fix its fake news problems, we now know those efforts only made things worse.
As the world was still coming to terms with President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, Facebook rolled out a program that December for independent fact-checkers to flag questionable content as “disputed.” But a new study out of MIT found that people assume that if some articles have warnings, those that don’t must be accurate.
“Putting a warning on some content is going...