Facebook Fact-Checkers Dominated by Left-Leaning Funding, Personnel, Organizations

Facebook Fact-Checkers Dominated by Left-Leaning Funding, Personnel, Organizations
Attendees walk past a Facebook logo during Facebook Inc.'s F8 developers conference in San Jose, Calif., on April 30, 2019. Stephen Lam/Reuters
Petr Svab
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While social media giant Facebook portrays its fact-checking feature as neutral and independent, the personnel, funding streams, and credentialing mechanism behind the participating organizations indicates otherwise.

Facebook launched the fact-checking feature shortly after Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016. It says it has since partnered with more than 50 fact-checking organizations around the world. Only a handful of them, however, appear to be focused on American content.
Petr Svab
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Petr Svab is a reporter covering New York. Previously, he covered national topics including politics, economy, education, and law enforcement.
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