By John McCarthy

In a critical effort to tackle fake news on its platform, Facebook plans to pay fact-checkers to monitor news flowing through its feed, and is looking to educate its users how to identify untruths online as it faces mounting criticism for its current initiatives that rely on users flagging content.

Facebook has formed partnerships with third parties such as Politifact, Snopes, AFP, BFMTV, L’Express, Le Monde and Berlin-based non-profit Correctiv to act as fact-checkers for news posted to the platform.

The initiative was outlined by Adam Mosseri, Facebook vice-president of product management for newsfeed, in a statement to the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum