Employees Knew Facebook Often Caught Misinformation Too Late
Facebook’s system for dealing with misinformation faces many hinderances inherent to its architecture. “Even in the best of circumstances (e.g., in the US), the fact checkers have fairly slow response time and don’t check that many pieces of content,” one employee wrote in a presentation. “That means that content is often not caught until after it has gotten a lot of distribution, and many things are never caught.” The employee goes on to say that in “most” countries, the platform has no fact checkers at all.
