Fake news? Visa lottery scam? Facebook fact checker has daunting task

This week, Immigration Canada was inundated with calls from people who wanted to know how to get on the list for a new visa lottery.
Immigration Canada doesn’t hold a lottery for entry into the country, and has no plans to do so. However, a false story making the rounds in Ghana and Nigeria misled thousands into thinking they could be picked at random for Canadian citizenship.
The job of debunking that so-called fake news fell to Montreal-based Louis Baudoin-Laarman, Facebook’s lone