Facebook Fact-Checker Funded by Chinese Money Through TikTok
SOCIAL MEDIA BY PETR SVABDecember 10, 2020 Updated: December 10, 2020 While Facebook portrays its army of fact-checkers as independent, the money behind at least one carries a distinct taint. One such fact-checker, Lead Stories, is partly paid through a partnership with TikTok, a social media platform run by a Chinese company that…