Chris Cox

Q: “You're definitely moving towards high quality content. Much more of a publisher, less of a neutral platform. Am I right or wrong?” A: “You’re right on all of it. Unsurprisingly as a diligent reporter. And I think we're trying to do this in a way where we're putting decision making in the hands of institutions who have a history like fact checkers. The way we're combating the fake news problem is to identify when something's going viral, get really good at understanding when something is about to go viral, then getting it quickly to fact checkers. We're in 15 countries now. We want to be in more. We're working quickly on expanding, and helping the fact checkers prioritize their work. And so they can, rather than fact checking whichever story came up may have come across their desk. They're looking at the ones that are about to get traction on social media, then use that to reduce the distribution of the story and also to educate folks who are about to share it or folks who are coming across the story in social media.”