Facebook pushes back on claims that outside fact-checking is a PR stunt

Facebook is pushing back on claims that its work with third-party fact-checkers amounts to little more than "crisis PR."
That's how one former employee of Snopes, one of the fact-checking websites that works directly with Facebook to debunk misinformation in News Feed, described her previous work with the company.
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In a report published in The Guardian, the former Snopes employee says Facebook "essentially used us for crisis PR," and that "they are more inter