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The myth-busting website Snopes has ended a partnership with Facebook on fact-checking (AFP Photo/Lionel BONAVENTURE)Washington (AFP) - Snopes, the popular myth-busting website, said Friday it was ending its fact-checking partnership with Facebook as part of a "difficult, but necessary change."A Snopes statement said it was "evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services," and wants the efforts to be "a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff."The statement did not elaborate but Snopes vice president Vinny Green told the media education group Poynter the partnership was excessively labor intensive, requiring manual updates to fact checks by its staff of 16....https://news.yahoo.com/snopes-pulls-fact-checking-partnership-facebook-222255874.html