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“At this time we are evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services, and we want to determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff.” MattCData/1092440411426181120
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Don't work for Facebook for free! medium.com/@aramzs/the-media-is-a-business-and-journalism-is-a-job-get-it-together-c1ba78a4df95
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The entire Facebook fact checking partnership project is an entirely predictable waste of time and resources.
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“Do you need fact-checkers to stop and do all this manual work? Or should fake websites just be reported through other means and supply a body of evidence that these people shouldn’t be on your platform because of their nefarious activity?”
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Journalism is a job, if someone asks you to do it for free you flip them the finger.
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And if anyone says you should do journalism for free clicks or "exposure", you flip them the other finger. And if they ask you to do it for exposure *AND* they're Facebook, get a friend to supply a third finger to flip. That is the appropriate reaction.
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And it should have been from day one.