Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era

Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era

After the election, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he was doing away with Facebook’s fact-checking apparatus in the US. With content creators getting paid based on reach, and content spreading wider and faster the more extreme it is, is Facebook the perfect environment for misinformation to flourish?


Guest: Craig Silverman, technology reporter for ProPublica.


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