Jan Jekielek – “Virtually every piece of information that can be co-opted has been, whether it’s Wikipedia online, fact-checkers, the news,” says five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson. “This is all part of a very well-funded, well-organized landscape that dictates and slants the information they want us to have.”
Attkisson is the host of Full Measure and author of “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.” Continue reading
John Doe – Executives at Facebook have been forced to admit that the fact-checking program – which is mostly aimed at silencing independent media – is a highly partisan scam.
The bombshell admission emerged during Facebook’s lawsuit with John Stossel, who is suing the Big Tech giant for defamation over its decision to add “fact check” labels to his content about climate change.
From page two of Facebook’s court statement: Continue reading
The Mad Patriots – The rise of Donald Trump gave rise to another media phenomenon: The ubiquitous media “fact-checker,” employed to come out of the woodwork anytime Trump or another Republican says something that cuts against the liberal narrative. While these fact-checkers occasionally find it within themselves to “check” something particularly egregious said by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders, they devote the majority of their time to supposedly debunking conservatives.
This, says the Pew Research Center, has not gone unnoticed by most Republican voters. According to a new poll, the vast majority of registered Republicans do not have any trust in the independence of these fact-checkers. Continue reading