correctiv.org is independent non-profit, based in Berlin, which is interesting setting. This is a rather small company, with editorial office in Essen. It looks

correctiv.org is independent non-profit, based in Berlin, which is interesting setting. This is a rather small company, with editorial office in Essen. It looks like it relies on 16 journalists (some of them high-calibre), and one traineeto fulfil their duties. Of which Facebook is not the only one. Which inevitably poses a question, how good is this backup and is this not another kind of attempt of a Dutch boy stopping flood of the whole Nederland with his finger in the dam? The dam is of course the German FB, standing the flood of fake news. I failed to recognise how many 'viral' stories on FB are fake, however, so can't really estimate that Correctiv is much of a finger in such a dam.