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More on Facebook's fake coronavirus "Fact Check"

Dated: April 29, 2020 by Sharyl Attkisson 3 Comments

      

The following is an excerpt from an article in LifeSiteNews

April 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) โ€โ€ Facebook has finally removed the โ€œfake newsโ€ย warning it had attached to a New York Post article published earlier this year that suggested that the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan, China biolab.

Read my original article here.

According toร‚ย Steve Mosher, president of theร‚ย Population Research Instituteร‚ย and an expert on China, Facebook has yet to offer an apology for the unwarranted โ€œfake newsโ€ย label the social media giant had pinned to his February 22 op-ed, โ€œDonโ€โ„ขt buy Chinaโ€โ„ขs story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab. โ€ย

โ€œAfter we raised the alarm, Facebook uncensored that Steve Mosher oped about the origins of the Wuhan virus,โ€ยร‚ย tweetedร‚ย New York Postร‚ย opinion editor, Sohrab Ahmari.ร‚ย  โ€œBut the company didnโ€โ„ขt apologize to the NYPost or offer explanation/accountability.โ€ย

Listen to my podcast on Facebook's fake "fact check" here.

The two-month-long drama has cast a spotlight on Facebookโ€โ„ขs fact-checking methods and raises serious questions about whether the judgement of its โ€œexperts โ€ย is sometimes compromised due to conflicts of interest.

Journalist Sharyl Attkisson previously reported that the lead fact-checker on Mosherโ€โ„ขs story, Danielle Anderson, has ties to the Wuhan biolab. (Continued...)

Read the rest of the article by clicking the link below:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/facebook-quietly-drops-fake-news-flag-on-report-revealing-covid-19-escaped-from-china-lab

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