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Swift backlash for Brazil students targeting misinformation Leonardo de Carvalho Leal, right, and Mayara Stelle, who administer the Twitter account Sleeping Giants Brazil, use their computers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Sleeping Giants is a platform for activism whose stated mission is to attack the financing of hate speech and dissemination of fake news. Associated Press Leonardo de Carvalho Leal, right, and Mayara Stelle, who administer the Twitter account Sle...

December 14, 2020 A professor Facebook has empowered to decide who can become a fact-checker is an open political leftist who has expressed animus against all Republican U.S. voters, according to recently uncovered documents exposing the official — and the process by which social media censors obtain their powers. According to Jack Houghton of Sky News, the platform’s fact-checking certifier Margot Susca retweeted the claim that racism is “embraced by nearly half of the country’s elect...

Facebook fact-checkers are tied to Soros, Hillary Clinton, CCP, and CNN The independent fact-checkers policing Americans online are tied to George Soros, Hillary Clinton, the Chinese Communist Party, and CNN. Lead Stories makes money from TikTok, a CCP-tied company. It was also co-founded by a longtime CNN producer. Staffers also come, mostly, from CNN. They claim the fact-checkers are certified by the International Fact-Checking Network. It was founded by the Poynter Institute which works clos...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 14th, 2020 The ‘independent certifier’ who retweeted the claim that all Republican voters are racists approved as a Facebook fact-checker an organization funded by Chinese Communists and U.S. Democrats. A professor Facebook has empowered to decide who can become a fact-checker is an open political leftist who has expressed animus against all Republican U.S. voters, according to recently uncovered documents exposi...

Nonpartisan? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. According to Jack Houghton of Sky News, the platform’s fact-checking certifier Margot Susca retweeted the claim that racism is “embraced by nearly half of the country’s electorate” in America, called herself a member of Hillary Clinton’s “team” in 2019, and on Russian propaganda network RT she insisted that the U.S. president’s speeches should not be broadcast. Susca is an American University...

Fact Checker Unmasked: Hillary Clinton Activist   Have you ever posted something conservative at Facebook, only to have some nameless “fact checker” delete it? Who then shake their self-righteous finger at you, accusing you of posting something that goes against their “community standards?” Or at the very least they promote a link to a liberal website to counter what you posted. Maddening, isn’t it? Ah, now we have proof that these fact-checkers are anything but the “non-partisan...

Facebook Fact-Checker Funded by Chinese Money Through TikTok While Facebook portrays its army of fact-checkers as independent, the money behind at least one carries a distinct taint. One such fact-checker, Lead Stories, is partly paid through a partnership with TikTok, a social media platform run by a Chinese company that owes its allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). TikTok currently is being probed by U.S. officials as a national security threat. Moreover, the organization that’s...