2019-01-31 17:16:59.920959+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Poynter: Want to get away with posting fake news on Facebook? Just change your website domain.
Sinclair Treadway, who runs the site from Southern California with his husband Sean Adl-Tabatabai, told Bloomberg in November that the move to rebrand was a direct result of declining revenue due to Facebook’s fact-checking program. Once a fact-checking outlet like Snopes rates a link, image or video as false, its future reach decreases in the News Feed. (Disclosure: Being a signatory ofthe International Fact-Checking Network’s code of principles is a necessary condition for joining the project.)