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1. @campbell_brown, who is head of "News Partnerships" at Facebook, doesn't appear to understand her own company's fact-checking policy
@campbell_brown 2. In a post on Facebook, Brown writes "I strongly believe it should be the role of the press to dissect the truth or lies found in political ads - not engineers at a tech company."

Facebook partners with third-parties like Politifact and AP (journalists) to do fact-checking
3. Facebook has also added The Daily Caller to their roster of fact-checkers which is ridiculous. But Facebook also uses these fact-checkers to check ALMOST ALL POLITICAL ADS. They've just exempted ads by candidates

Weird @campbell_brown doesn't know this since she works there
@campbell_brown 4. Brown also defends the inclusion of Breitbart in Facebook's new News Tab, saying it meets the company's standards for "integrity" and "misinformation"

This is a site that laundered talking points for white nationalists
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