FB wants to be a news product that takes editorial actions without being accountable for editorial decisions. Third-party fact-checking was never going to fix things. For journalistic judgment to be credible, it requires writers and editors who are directly answerable for it.
I say this with great respect for fact-checking as part of the editorial process and for many of the fact-check sites. But it's nuts that anyone thought " *shrug*, the Pinocchio ratings told us to" was ever going to work as an answer to the epistemic collapse FB helped create.
It's such a strange dance, watching Facebook repeatedly apologize for News editorial decisions it bends over backward to be able to say weren't its own. What insulation from controversy does the view-from-Snopes buy them at this point?
