San Francisco: Striking a significant blow to the network effort to fight fake news, two leading fact-checking agencies have ended their partnerships with Facebook.
As per reports, the social network had paid Associated Press and Snopes, the two key fact-checking agencies to combat its misinformation crisis but both firms confirmed they stopped checking articles at the end of 2018, and will not renew their contracts.
Facebook said that it was committed to fight fake news and said it would expand its efforts in 2019."Fighting misinformation takes a multi-pronged approach from across the industry", said a Facebook spokeswoman.
"We are committed to fighting this through many tactics, and the work that third-party fact-checkers do is a valued and important piece of this effort", she added.