Facebook's approach to fact checking has always been cost-optimization. It would have been a drag on profits to hire professionals to fact check and provide th

Facebook's approach to fact checking has always been cost-optimization. It would have been a drag on profits to hire professionals to fact check and provide them enough time to do their job, at scale. They quote numbers about how much they're spending as proof they're doing something, but that spend isn't normalized against the scale of their platform.