An investigation by Sky News Australia into bias shown by Facebook’s ‘fact-checkers’ has revealed that one of the leading academics assessing who can become a fact-checker for the online platform, Prof Margot Susca, is a liberal activist. She also signed-off on the Irish platform, TheJournal.ie, becoming a supposedly unbiased checker of facts for the platform. Digital […]
On November 7, 2020, the Sunday Express published an article by Patrick Basham, an American conservative, entitled: “Stalin said it’s not important who votes, but how they are counted.” The piece alleged “widespread ballot fraud” in the US Presidential election. The Express’s link to the piece now returns a 404 message — page missing — but a copy is still available on […]
The prominent conservative leader and commentator, Candace Owens, has hired the lawyers who took the ‘Covington Catholic’ cases to take the first steps in a legal case against Facebook for defamation. “This week, in light of discovering that Facebook has granted a former CNN editor of 26 years, “fact-checker” status to censor and ban conservative accounts, I engaged […]