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Facebook Stumbles With Early Effort to Stamp Out Fake News

  • Slow, cumbersome process hits only a fraction of hoax stories
  • Social network outsources decisions to avoid bias criticism
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Facebook Tries to Get a Handle on Fake News

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Facebook Inc. is struggling to stamp out fake news.

The company outsources the process to third-party fact checkers who can only tackle a small fraction of the bogus news that floods the social network, according to interviews with people involved in the process. And screenshots obtained by Bloomberg reveal a process that some partners say is too cumbersome and inefficient to stop misinformation duplicating and spreading.

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