"The company has already been working with outside fact-checkers like Snopes and the AP to flag inaccurate news stories. (These aren’t supposed to be stories that are disputed for reasons of opinion or partisanship, but rather outright hoaxes and lies.) It also says that when a story is marked as disputed, the link can can no longer be promoted through Facebook ads."
If Snopes/AP tells me something is false, I'm perfectly willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps this will change in the coming decade, but for now, this seems like a perfectly reasonable heuristic.
Honestly, the fact that you think snopes is unbiased is pretty shocking to me, and gives me little hope that Facebook would ever be able to properly determine what is "fake news".
If Snopes/AP tells me something is false, I'm perfectly willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps this will change in the coming decade, but for now, this seems like a perfectly reasonable heuristic.