Facebook fact checks post about government spending: Facebook fact-checked a post criticizing government spending. The post said, "The 550 US billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we'd raise enough to run the federal government for less than 8 months. Perhaps our problem isn't how much billionaires have but how much politicians spend." Facebook claimed the post was "missing context" and linked to an article by independent fact-checkers. Posts with fact checks are negatively affected because users fail to click through a fact-check interstitial to see the post 95% of the time.