Facebook's only Dutch factchecker quits over political ad exemption

'Final straw' was refusal to allow partner to mark dubious claims by far-right parties

Facebook's only Dutch factchecker has quit over the social network's refusal to allow them to highlight political lies as being false.

The online newspaper Nu.nl had been Facebook's only factchecking partner in the Netherlands since Leiden University dropped out of the programme last year. The website had sole responsibility for marking Facebook and Instagram news content for Dutch users as being false or misleading, in order to help power the social network's tools that suppress distribution of misinformation.