Facebook under fire for picking ‘liberal’ outlets to fact-check

James Covert
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:52:46 -0500

Mark Zuckerberg is taking heat from the right for Facebook’s new “fact-checking” initiative to police fake news. Conservative pundits and publications are charging that most of the third-party organizations recruited this week to filter fake news stories from Facebook have a track record of liberal bias. Snopes, ABC News, Politifact and FactCheck.org all “have records...