Profile of Boom, one of seven tiny fact-checking firms Facebook hired before India's elections, which finds fighting misinformation a Sisyphean task
- The company has hired contract firms during India's elections — At least one fact-check team says it's struggling to keep up Tweets: @pernillet , @shiraovide , and @freecloud See also Mediagazer Tweets: Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet : “What can 11 people do, when hundreds of millions of first-time smartphone-internet users avidly share every suspect video and fake tidbit that comes their way?” Fact checking Facebook and Whatsapp up to elections in India http://www.bloomberg.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Why is it a state secret how much Facebook pays its fact checking partner? http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/... Alan Patrick / @freecloud : Anyone who starts looking at this problem soon realises that (i) all media is lying, (ii) there is very little actual objectivity possible as what is a lie often depends on the p.o.v. of the recipient and (iii) no one will thank you for getting it right, never mind wrong. http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer