Five Days of Facebook Fact-Checking

MARK ZUCKERBERG, Facebook’s CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content—a realm within which Facebook is trying to establish a “best in class” reputation. New research from the Tow Center shows that the platform is falling short.

In order to understand how consistently and swiftly Facebook applies fact-checks to its namesake platform and Instagram, the Tow Center reviewed fact-checking labels assigned by the company to posts between October 1 and 5—the period spanning President Donald Trump’s COVID-19...