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Problems of using fact-checking sites as inputs for social media algorithms

This is a brief post describing a key problem in using fact-checking sites as inputs to filter undesirable content (e.g., fake news) from social media newsfeeds (e.g., Facebook). The premise sounds good, right? We use human raters to verify truthfulness of an article, and use that information as part of the decision-making algorithm. However, there […]