December 19, 2016

Facebook’s push to snuff out fake news poses threat to pro-life, traditional values reporting

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook
After taking stiff criticism for being a conduit in the recent spate of misinformation and hoaxes published to drive Internet traffic, the Facebook will begin fact checking, labeling, and burying in its News Feed what it determines to be either a hoax or fake news.

But Facebook’s partnership with Snopes, Factcheck.org, ABC News and PolitiFact to manage fact checking in this new initiative raises the question of who will determine what constitutes “fake news.” That leads then to the issue of whether information on Facebook will be censored to fit a particular worldview.

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