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Setback for Facebook’s efforts to fight fake News as two leading agencies have stopped their partnership with tech giant.

It is seen as significant blow to the Facebook as it is already facing lot of problems since last year.

According to report in TechCrunch, Two leading fact checking agencies have stopped working with the Facebook.

The two leading agences to fight fake news are AP and Snopes

According to report, Snopes, the popular fact checking website, has said that “ At this time we are evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services, and we want to determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff.” as reported in Guardian.

According to report in TechCrunch, “AP constantly evaluates how to best deploy its fact-checking resources, and that includes ongoing conversations with Facebook about opportunities to do important fact-checking work on its platform,” AP representative said.

AP said that although it was not doing fact checking work but it was not leaving altogether “AP is in talks with Facebook and we fully expect to be doing fact check work for Facebook in 2019.”

-Sai Kumar