Fact-checking fake news on Facebook works – just too slowly

Facebook's effort to limit the spread of fake news using outside fact-checkers appears to be having an effect — although that finding comes with a major caveat. Once a story receives a false rating from a fact-checker, Facebook says, subsequent "impressions" can fall off by 80 percent. Impressions count the number of times Facebook users see ...

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Fact-checking fake news on Facebook works – just too slowly

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