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Facts about the Fact Checkers -

Here are some facts about the fact checkers you may not know. Having everything you post fact checked is important to protect you from free thinking. But who are the all knowing fact checkers who have never been wrong?

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopol...t-checkers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjZR6Htm...e=youtu.be

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Facebook Fact Checker Funded by Chinese Money -

https://welovetrump.com/2020/12/11/faceb...w61MZdIwKQ






SNOPES IS A JOKE ! A TOTAL HOAX !

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ygmyTeVDdTSD/

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FB POST -

Copied, this text is from a few months ago, likely need updates.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides over $250 million dollars in funding to news organizations, charitable organizations affiliated with news outlets, journalistic organizations, and fact-checking groups that regularly give investor and philanthropist Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation favorable coverage, according to an in-depth report from Columbia Journalism Review (CJR).

The Gates Foundation provides this funding through charitable grants and has given over $2 million to groups such as fact-checker Africa Check ($1.48 million), media company Gannett ($499,651), and the journalism school the Poynter Institute ($382,997). These groups have defended or favorably covered Gates and the Gates Foundation in their fact-checks.

CJR notes that it found "sixteen examples of Africa Check examining media claims related to Gates" and that its "body of work overwhelmingly seems to support or defend Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation, which has spent billions of dollars on development efforts in Africa."

Gannet-owned USA Today also regularly publishes fact-checks that defend Gates and his foundation from numerous claims including allegations that they will profit from COVID-19 vaccines or treatments and allegations that Gates and the World Economic Forum predicted the coronavirus pandemic.

And the Poynter Institute-owned fact-checker Politifact also often defends Gates and the Gates Foundation from allegations such as claims that the Gates Foundation will profit from a vaccine and claims about Gates' vaccine comments.

Poynter senior vice president Kelly McBride told CJR that the money from the Gates Foundation was passed on to media fact-checking sites, including Africa Check, and noted that she is "absolutely confident" that no bias or blind spots emerged from the work. However, McBride acknowledged that she has not reviewed the work herself.

The executive director of Africa Check, Noko Makgato, told CJR: "Our funders or supporters have no influence over the claims we fact-check…and the conclusions we reach in our reports. With all fact-checks involving our funders, we include a disclosure note to inform the reader."

In addition to giving funding to these organizations that have provided fact-checks, the Gates Foundation has also given charitable grants to the BBC, The Guardian, NBCUniversal Media, the Financial Times, ProPublica, The Atlantic, Medium, Al Jazeera, National Journal, Univision, the Texas Tribune, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, according to CJR's report.

"When Gates gives money to newsrooms, it restricts how the money is used—often for topics, like global health and education, on which the foundation works—which can help elevate its agenda in the news media," CJR added.
For example, the Africa Check grant's purpose was "to increase accuracy of health claims by public figures and promote use of evidence backed information by policy makers, the media and the public, when addressing public health and development issues" while the Poynter Institute grant's purpose was to "improve the accuracy in worldwide media of claims related to global health and development."

CJR also notes that "during the pandemic, news outlets have widely looked to Bill Gates as a public health expert on covid—even though Gates has no medical training and is not a public official" and describes this as the news media giving Gates "an outsize voice in the pandemic."

Additionally, CJR suggests that when the Gates Foundation launched 20 years ago, journalists were much more critical of Gates' philanthropy efforts and that "Gates's generosity appears to have helped foster an increasingly friendly media environment for the world's most visible charity."

While much of the report focuses on the favorable coverage Gates receives on health and education topics, Gates has also used one of his recent appearances on NBCUniversal-owned CNBC to take aim at private messages and end-to-end encryption.

During this appearance, Gates lamented not being able to see the messages in end-to-end encrypted messaging app WhatsApp and claimed that the company has "made sure they can't intervene" when users share content such as anti-vaccine content.

A spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told CJR that a "guiding principle" of its journalism funding is "ensuring creative and editorial independence" and noted that many of the issues the Gates Foundation works on "do not get the in-depth, consistent media coverage they once did" because of financial pressures in journalism.

The spokesperson added: "When well-respected media outlets have an opportunity to produce coverage of under-researched and under-reported issues, they have the power to educate the public and encourage the adoption and implementation of evidence-based policies in both the public and private sectors."

In a follow-up statement, the Gates Foundation said: "Recipients of foundation journalism grants have been and continue to be some of the most respected journalism outlets in the world.… The line of questioning for this story implies that these organizations have compromised their integrity and independence by reporting on global health, development, and education with foundation funding. We strongly dispute this notion."

The implications of these Gates Foundation charitable grants going to fact-checking groups and news organizations extends far beyond giving positive media coverage to Gates and the issues the Gates Foundation works on.
Facebook works with fact-checking partners that are certified by Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and Africa Check and Politifact are both Facebook fact-checking partners.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that when a warning label gets applied to Facebook posts after they're fact-checked, this drastically cuts their viewership and results in users not clicking through to the content 95% of the time.

With Facebook being the world's largest social network and having over 2.7 billion users, the decisions of these Gates-funded fact-checkers can determine how well content about the coronavirus or vaccine heath concerns performs with a "false" rating cutting its click through rate by around 20x.

This censorship via fact-checking concern is the subject of a recent lawsuit from the Children's Health Defense group against Facebook and several of its fact-checking partners including the Poynter Institute and Politifact. The lawsuit claims that factually accurate public health posts were purposefully censored by Facebook.
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EXPOSED: Facebook’s Independent COVID Fact-checker Site FactCheck.org Funded By $1.9 Billion Vaccine Lobby -

A U.S. congressman [i]Thomas Massie [/i]has pointed out a fact that a COVID-19 vaccination “fact-checking” project conducted by Facebook-partnered website is actually funded by a group that holds $1.9 billion in Johnson & Johnson stock...


https://sarahwestall.com/exposed-faceboo...ine-lobby/

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Facebook is in BIG TROUBLE.


It has just been discovered that the Facebook Covid vaccine Fact-Checkers are funded by vaccine companies ...


https://t.me/officialcharliewardshow/32171

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How Fact Checking Is Controlled and Faked -

Fact-checking is one part of the campaign to control what you see online, and therefore what you think and how you perceive reality

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explains how virtually everything you see and hear online has been co-opted, or taken over to serve a greater agenda

Instead of real journalists and reporters, the media is infiltrated with propagandists who dictate what’s “fake news” and what’s not

The public is being manipulated to want their information censored by third-party “fact”-checkers, which were introduced as a tool to confuse and control the public further

“Conspiracy theory”, “debunked”, “quackery” and “antivaccine” are examples of terms that are being used as propaganda tools; if you hear them, it should make you dig deeper for the truth

Those who rely solely on the internet for their information are at serious risk of being controlled; you can fight back by doing your own research, trusting your cognitive dissonance and using your common sense …


https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-fact-c...ed/5769904

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Fact Checkers Refuse to Acknowledde “The Great Reset”

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‘Grotesque’: Google, YouTube Invest $12 Million in Global Fact-Checking Media Network

Claiming that “Combating misinformation is an ongoing global challenge for society,” Google and YouTube on Tuesday said they will spend $12 million to create a Global Fact Check Fund that will support a network of 135 fact-checking organizations operating from 65 countries in more than 80 languages.
The money is part of a $13.5 million grant the tech companies awarded the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a division of the nonprofit media institute Poynter, according to Mashable.
The money will go toward scaling up existing operations of Poynter’s IFCN, and also toward launching new initiatives to elevate what the IFCN deems to be “information” and reduce what it deems to be “misinformation,” the companies said.
“The world needs fact-checking more than ever before,” said Baybars Örsek, executive director of the IFCN. “This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction.”
However, Mark Crispin Miller, Ph.D., professor of media studies at New York University, told The Defender he found the development to be “grotesque — almost to the point of comedy, except that it’s not funny.”
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., author of “Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom,” also criticized Google and YouTube’s financial partnership with the IFCN, telling The Defender:
“Google and YouTube are not purveyors of information; they are tools for the totalitarian control of information. They have engaged in censorship, down-ranking, and black-listing information, likely since their inception.
“Their outsourcing of such functions to the IFCN is no surprise at all. The IFCN is merely an agent of the totalitarian regime.”
Are fact checks statements of opinion or statements of fact?
The distinction between what constitutes “information” versus what constitutes “misinformation” is arbitrary and depends on whether it aligns with the preferred narrative of those in power, Rectenwald said.
“‘Misinformation’ means anything that runs counter to the regime’s narratives on any number of issues, including international policy and warfare, economics and recession, pandemics and vaccines, politics and elections, the global elites, climate change and The Great Reset that is being ushered in as we speak.”
Moreover, according to Facebook, “Fact checks” are statements of opinion, and as such, are protected under the First Amendment — that’s what the social media giant argued when, after it was sued for defamation, the company claimed its “fact checks” aren’t factual assertions.
In November 2020, Children’s Health Defense filed a First and Fifth Amendment lawsuit against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and two of Facebook’s “fact-checkers” for illegal censorship and false promotion/false misrepresentations under federal law (the Lanham Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act).
Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told The Defender Google and YouTube have suppressed free speech on key issues.

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