Facebook Fact Checking

Sky News reports:

The fact-checking director who oversees Mark Zuckerberg’s misinformation program on Facebook has been caught in secret emails colluding with a now disgraced operation which suppressed journalism during Australia’s Voice referendum. …

RMIT FactLab was suspended from fact checking on Facebook after a Sky News Australia investigation in Augustfound the operation was filled with partisan activists who used their powers to censor journalism on Facebook they disagreed with, particularly in relation to the Voice referendum.

The investigation, dubbed The Fact Check Files, revealed the university had breached the IFCN’s rules of impartiality several times, including when its fact checking director Russell Skelton was campaigning for a change to Australia’s constitution during a contentious referendum debate.

A fact checker that is also a campaigner!

RMIT university was paid up to $740,000 from a Meta Irish subsidiary to finance its operation which targeted just one side of the Voice referendum debate, censoring journalism by reducing the reach of content on the platform.

Facebook fact checkers can reduce or kill your visibility on Facebook.