FT’s John Ridding: Facebook fact checkers ‘like a game of whack-a-mole’, fake news solution lies in paywalled ecosystem
Financial Times Group chief executive John Ridding believes the epidemic of fake news being spread on Google and Facebook reflects a bigger issue in the distortion of the online news ecosystem, such that the solution is not in hiring a team of fact-checkers, but in creating an infrastructure that values premium, paid-for news.
13 Jun 2017 ... ... of fake news being spread on Google and Facebook reflects a bigger issue ... With advertising pressures mounting on newspapers that have ...