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This page shows, for me, simply:

  How is news marked as disputed on Facebook?
  This feature isn't available to everyone yet.
  How helpful did you find this answer?
  :< :( :| :) :D

Of course, I clicked the saddest-face feedback button.

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"You may see that certain news stories are marked as disputed on Facebook. News stories that are reported as fake by people on Facebook may be reviewed by independent third-party fact-checkers. These fact-checkers will be signatories of the non-partisan Poynter Code of Principles. A story may be marked as disputed if these fact-checkers find the story to be fake.

To see why a news story was marked as disputed on Facebook:

Hover and click underneath the disputed story.

Click About Disputed Stories, or go directly to the independent fact-checking website."

That may be your adblock/noscript, but:

> This feature isn't available to everyone yet.

Really refers to the fact that Facebook is partnering with mainstream media in each individual country, and so they need time to roll this out internationally. Most countries don't even have a developed fact-checking infrastructure.

Now I'm curious - what countries do have a developed fact-checking infrastructure? For the public, I mean, so intelligence services don't qualify if they don't publish their findings ;)

The US has (Politifact, Snopes, etc). Many countries just don't have well-known companies doing this.

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