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Can Massive Social Networks Keep Their Facts Straight?
- Poynter, Thursday, July 5, 2018 9:28 PM
Poynter looks at various efforts to curb misinformation circulating among WeChat’s roughly 1 billion monthly active users. “The ad hoc method these projects employ is similar to the approach attempted by fact-checkers on WhatsApp, where readers are asked to send potential hoaxes to institutional accounts and distribute the resulting fact checks,” it writes.
