Facebook threw some petty cash at misinformation research

Facebook threw some petty cash at misinformation research

Facebook announced it would donate money to researchers studying misinformation on its platform. The thing is, the donation is teeny when compared to the scale of the problem and Facebook’s enormous coffers: $2 million, or 0.01% of its revenue just for the last quarter of 2019. To study the misinformation that you, @facebook, are willing to spread in exchange for advertising dollars from political candidates?