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Facebook made THE DAILY CALLER an official fact-checking partner.
Judd Legum ✔@JuddLegum
1. Facebook made THE DAILY CALLER an official fact-checking partner.
That gives The Daily Caller the ability to label anything posted on Facebook as "false information" and dramatically reduce its distribution.
It's now using that power to boost Trump.
2. On Friday, Politico published an article headlined "Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’"
The Daily Caller declared this was "false information." If you try to post the article to Facebook, this is what you see.
3. The Daily Caller's fact check claims that Trump referred only to the Democrats' politicization of the coronavirus as a "hoax"
But that's not what Trump said
He said: "This is their new hoax"
The Daily Caller resolves that ambiguity in favor of Trump
4. The Daily Caller justifies its ruling by claiming: "Throughout the speech, Trump reiterates his administration is taking the threat of the coronavirus seriously"
Throughout the speech, Trump minimizes the threat of the coronavirus
Read it yourself
5. The bigger question is why Facebook allows The Daily Caller to make judgments about Politico's reporting.
The Daily Caller has a history of publishing false information.
And it published columns by a white nationalist.
6. The Daily Caller does fact check false claims about Democrats but many of these are framed as clickbait.
For example: FACT CHECK: DOES THIS PHOTO SHOW OBAMA’S COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ID LISTING HIM AS A ‘FOREIGN STUDENT’?
7. The Daily Caller's fact check operation is funded by the Searle Freedom Trust, a major funder of organizations that push climate disinformation and other right-wing causes
8. The political narrative on Facebook is a BFD. That's why candidates spend millions on Facebook ads
That's why I spend so much time tracking how it deals w/political content
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9:32 AM - Mar 3, 2020
1. Facebook made THE DAILY CALLER an official fact-checking partner.
That gives The Daily Caller the ability to label anything posted on Facebook as "false information" and dramatically reduce its distribution.
It's now using that power to boost Trump.
https://popular.info/p/the-daily-caller-uses-status-as-facebook …
The Daily Caller uses status as Facebook fact-checker to boost Trump
In April 2019, Facebook announced it was adding The Daily Caller, the right-wing site founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, to its fact-checking program. The move was made in response to conserv...
2. On Friday, Politico published an article headlined "Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’"
The Daily Caller declared this was "false information." If you try to post the article to Facebook, this is what you see.
3. The Daily Caller's fact check claims that Trump referred only to the Democrats' politicization of the coronavirus as a "hoax"
But that's not what Trump said
He said: "This is their new hoax"
The Daily Caller resolves that ambiguity in favor of Trump
4. The Daily Caller justifies its ruling by claiming: "Throughout the speech, Trump reiterates his administration is taking the threat of the coronavirus seriously"
Throughout the speech, Trump minimizes the threat of the coronavirus
Read it yourself
5. The bigger question is why Facebook allows The Daily Caller to make judgments about Politico's reporting.
The Daily Caller has a history of publishing false information.
And it published columns by a white nationalist.
6. The Daily Caller does fact check false claims about Democrats but many of these are framed as clickbait.
For example: FACT CHECK: DOES THIS PHOTO SHOW OBAMA’S COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ID LISTING HIM AS A ‘FOREIGN STUDENT’?
7. The Daily Caller's fact check operation is funded by the Searle Freedom Trust, a major funder of organizations that push climate disinformation and other right-wing causes
8. The political narrative on Facebook is a BFD. That's why candidates spend millions on Facebook ads
That's why I spend so much time tracking how it deals w/political content
Stay informed. Check out my newsletter, Popular Information
Sign up ➡️ htttp://popular.info/subscribe
9:32 AM - Mar 3, 2020
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I'm ready 
Fuck the Daily Caller. They might as well make Infowars a fact checking partner. 