Two of Facebook’s four fact-checking partners in the U. S. have left the program as of the beginning of this year: Snopes, which recently rebuffed reports that its relationship with Facebook was strain| Techie World
Snopes joined Facebook’s group of third-party fact checkers in 2016, at first volunteering its services and the next year accepting a lump $100,000 payment for their work. But the company said in a statement that it’s rethinking providing services like this at all.
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.
Mikkelson added in a statement to TechCrunch that “we felt that the Facebook fact check partnership wasn’t working well for us as an organization.” I’ve asked Facebook for comment.
The news comes hot on the heels of a recent article in the Guardian by former Snopes employees who described the partnership as being “in disarray.
