Facebook's fact-checking process is too opaque to know if it's working

Most of the queue provided by Facebook contained content that couldn’t be fact-checked – such as statements of opinion and random links including a swathe of Mr Bean videos – pointing to the ongoing difficulty in monitoring the more than one billion pieces of content posted to the platform daily.

“Facebook’s algorithms are not yet at a stage where they can reliably identify information that is inaccurate,” says Will Moy, director of Full Fact.

This is a blow for the company as they, as well as other tech companies, have said that artificial intelligence should be used to help tackle the problem of fake news. But it doesn’t seem ready yet.