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Did Pfizer, Moderna skip animal trials? Fact-checking the fact-checkers

August 18, 2022 -

(Article by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org)

“Oftentimes these fact checks that come out by organizations like Reuters and AP [The Associated Press] end up not being exactly factual on their own,” Iversen told viewers.

Iversen examined Reuter’s most recent fact check, which sought to quell trending claims that COVID-19 vaccine producers skipped the animal trials because the animals were dying.

“Online over the last few ...

Fact checking the fact checkers: Debunking AP’s ‘2000 Mules’ hit piece

May 16, 2022 -

(Article by Jennifer Van Laar republished from RedState.com)

While Trump’s campaign repeatedly promised to “release the Kraken” and bring forward evidence of election fraud that would prove that the election was stolen, focusing on electronic voting machines, that evidence didn’t materialize. RedState’s Scott Hounsell pointed out various states and cities – even down to the precincts – that should be investigated, and that information was given to the Trump campaign to no ...

Facebook fact-checkers caught making wrong fact checks, exposing liberal bias

July 13, 2020 -

Fact-checking the fact-checkers

The original USA Today article, which ran on June 30, was called out by NewsBusters for misrepresenting some facts about the Civil War. The original article, written by intern Devon Link, conceded that the Confederacy was run by and made up of Democrats, as was the KKK. However, the article did not blame the Democratic Party for that, with Link calling the claim “an oversimplified trope about the Democratic Party.”

In the article, Link cites Princeton ...

“Fact-checkers” smear protesting German farmers as CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

February 09, 2024 -

Writing for the Public newsletter on Substack, U.S.-based author Gregor Baszak said the Correctiv fact-check site was responsible for the smear. Meanwhile, Reclaim The Net disclosed that Correctiv is funded by leftist groups such as the Omidyar Network and George Soros' Open Society Foundations, tech giant Meta Platforms and the incumbent German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

According to its website, Correctiv seeks to "expose systematic abuses, hold those ...

Social media, fact-checkers embarrassingly quiet on ivermectin hoax

September 11, 2021 -

(Article by Autumn Johnson republished from NewsBusters.org) When Rolling Stone published an article with the headline “Gunshot Victims Left Waiting as Horse Dewormer Overdoses Overwhelm Oklahoma Hospitals, Doctor Says,” the MSM pounced, eager for a chance to blame unvaccinated individuals.

There was only one problem: the story was completely false.

The story included quotes from Dr. Jason McElyea that painted a bleak picture of the capacity of hospitals.

“The ...

Investigative issues: The troubling fact is that the media’s fact-checkers tend to lean left

August 07, 2020 - fact checkers are primarily activists and advocates for progressive positions. The result is a group whose expressed viewpoints and causes are far from neutral. By contrast, however, no members of the Facebook board have known public positions on the conservative side of hot-button controversies.Genesis

One measure of the problems in “objective” fact-checking is the vastly disparate treatment accorded two of the most established partisan outfits – the conservative ...

Fact-checkers are used to confuse the public: Sharyl Attkisson

January 26, 2022 -

(Article by Masooma Haq and Jan Jekielek republished from TheEpochTimes.com)

“Nearly every mode of information has been co-opted, if it can be co-opted by some group, [and] fact-checkers are no different,” Attkisson told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”

“Either they’ve been co-opted, in many instances, or created for the purpose of distributing narratives and propaganda,” said Attkisson. “This is all part of a very well-funded, well-organized landscape that ...

Facebook whistleblower reveals “Fact checkers” trained to censor conservatives exclusively

December 08, 2020 -

But now…

We finally have proof!

(Article by Daniel republished from WeLoveTrump.com)

A former Facebook fact checker has come forward.

This whistleblower has REVEALED the insights behind how "fact checking" works on Facebook.

The revelations were published on LinkedIn by Jean-Pierre "Raven" Gregoire.

Why LinkedIn?

So they wouldn’t get censored on Facebook, of course!

According to the whistleblower accusations:

I ...

Too little, too late? Meta abandons fact-checkers for crowdsourced moderation

January 31, 2025 -

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook's content moderation system would transition from relying on fact-checkers to a crowdsourced system similar to community notes on X, formerly known as Twitter. However, critics argue that the company's approach to climate-related content remains unchanged.

For years, Facebook has faced criticism for censoring voices that challenge the prevailing narrative on climate change, including those of credentialed ...

Facebook drops fact-checkers, embraces free speech in major policy shift

January 11, 2025 -

In a bold move that signals a seismic shift in the battle over free speech online, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced it will no longer rely on third-party fact-checkers to police content on its platforms. Instead, the tech giant will adopt a new system called “Community Notes,” modeled after Elon Musk’s X, which empowers users to provide context and flag potentially misleading content. The decision, announced by Meta CEO Mark ...

German government-funded fact checkers launch smear campaign against protesting farmers

February 07, 2024 - fact checkers to smear those who voice unpopular opinions is nothing new. It’s been going on for years, and it ramped up quite a bit during the pandemic, when fact checkers were used to discredit anyone who dared to suggest that COVID-19 came from a lab leak or that vaccines are risky. Freedom of Information Act-requested documents and the Twitter Files have both proven that governments and other entities often bankroll fact checking groups to help them further ...

Washington Free Beacon mocks Biden-backing ‘fact checkers’ as Democrat spinners

July 19, 2022 -

(Article by Tim Graham republished from NewsBusters.org)

They called Kessler's article "a master class in the left’s crusade to conflate objective truth with Democratic spin."

Kessler didn't find anything in the Free Beacon's reporting that was a lie. It's just that "simple facts" were turned "nefarious." He didn't like the impression they were pushing:

Moreover, there’s no reason for outrage. Oil prices are determined by global supply and demand. The Biden ...

Del Bigtree slams fact-checkers targeting his reporting at The HighWire

January 06, 2022 -

"NewsGuard is one of those fact-checkers that has reached out multiple times. You got to take the time to answer every single question – [under threat of downgrading] your website. They claim to be funded by private parties, but also social media platforms," Bigtree said. The ICAN founder told independent journalist Jeffery Jaxen that NewsGuard and other fact-checking groups are simply "obnoxious."

He also mentioned how NewsGuard and other fact-checkers seemingly refute ...

IT’S ALL RIGGED: Facebook’s “fact checkers” are funded by vaccine corporations

August 04, 2021 - fact checkers? The vaccine fact checkers at @factcheckdotorg, who claim to be independent, are funded by an organization that holds over $1.8 billion of stock in a vaccine company, and is run by a former director of @CDCgov (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)," Massie revealed, pointing to an entry for Facebook's "fact checkers" that states:

"We also received $53,501 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. SciCheck's COVID-19 / Vaccination ...

Winning a battle in the war on censorship: Facebook scraps “fact-checkers”

January 14, 2025 -

(Article by Ty and Charlene Bollinger republished from TheTruthAboutCancer.com)

Less than a month after we (Ty and Charlene Bollinger) filed a historic lawsuit against the “Censorship Industrial Complex” and just one day after Children’s Health Defense (CHD) appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in its censorship case against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company is shutting down its third-party “fact-checking” program and taking major steps towards curtailing censorship ...

‘Fact checkers’ have FINALLY copped to the Charlottesville ‘very fine people’ hoax

June 25, 2024 -

(Article by Jack Montgomery republished from TheNationalPulse.com)

Snopes, which is regularly pressured into changing its fact-check ratings by the Biden regime, notes that the 81-year-old Democrat “[made] Trump’s comments on Charlottesville a cornerstone of his campaign” and that Senate Majority Leader Schumer has claimed Trump “called white supremacists in Charlottesville ‘very good people.'"

The fact-checkers admitted that this is a misrepresentation because while ...

Facebook admits in court that its “fact checkers” are just truth censors

December 19, 2021 -

The admission came in response to litigation filed by John Stossel, who sued the Big Tech behemoth for defamation over its decision to add "fact check" labels to content he posted about climate change.

Page two of Facebook's court statement responding to Stossel's suit contains the bombshell revelation, which the company was basically forced to make in defense of itself against the allegations made.

"Beyond this threshold Section 230 problem, the complaint also ...

Facebook VP admits fact-checkers are biased, pursue their own political agendas

June 21, 2021 -

This admission is based on a statement made by Sir Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications. Before his tenure at Facebook, he served as the United Kingdom's deputy prime minister and the leader of the political party the Liberal Democrats.

Clegg made the admission in Nov. 2020 to the European Commission – the main executive body of the European Union – during discussions regarding how the social media giant handles misinformation on its ...

Facebook “fact checkers” REVOLT after realizing they’ve been used to push propaganda

December 20, 2018 -

According to reports, these individuals were under the impression that their job was to identify actual fake news in order to flag it for removal from Facebook. But what they came to realize is that they were merely being used by Zuckerberg and his deep state cronies to remove truthful information from the platform that contradicts the official narrative.

Speaking on behalf of those participating in this revolt, Brooke Binkowski, a former editor at the fake news gatekeeper ...