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Facebook’s Fact Checking
Even for stories that do get fact-checked, there is necessarily a lag between when the story becomes popular online and when it gets flagged as false .
For example, it typically took Facebook over three days to implement a “Disputed by 3rd party fact-checkers” warning.
By the time an article has been fact-checked, many users have already read the article and much of the damage from fake news has already been done.
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Evidence suggests that attaching warnings to some stories can increase belief in stories that are untagged because some people take the absence of a warning to imply that the story in question has been verified.
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Participants who believed that the given news article was selected by other users rated the article more highly in terms of news quality than those participants who believed the article had been selected by news editors or those who had selected the article themselves.
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