The Federalist Screwed Over By Zuck

https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/07/were-still-waiting-for-facebook-to-atone-for-the-11-times-we-know-of-it-censored-the-federalist/

We’re Still Waiting For Facebook To Atone For The 11 Times (We Know Of) It Censored The Federalist

But Meta doesn’t just get to erase its years of political censorship with a carefully scripted apology video. Zuckerberg blames “governments and legacy media” for encouraging censorship, but his tech giant willingly complied, throttling dissent at the behest of the federal government. Meta still reserves the right to deal strikes and “reduce the distribution of certain hoax content.”

“When Pages do share something that’s been marked False by a fact-checker, we notify them that their shared post will be demoted, regardless of whether they are the original publisher of that content,” Meta states on its policy enforcement blog.

1. Counter-Fact-Check on Georgia Ballot Counting

Weeks after the 2020 presidential election — in which Mark Zuckerberg meddled to the tune of $419 million, by the way — Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway published a story challenging a “fact-check” about Georgia ballot counting by an outfit called “Lead Stories.” Lead Stories claimed to have debunked the testimony of Republicans alarmed by suspicious events at a Fulton County ballot-counting site. Hemingway contended that the surveillance video in question didn’t debunk their concerns at all.

As soon as Hemingway’s story was published on Facebook, it was marked with a text bubble declaring it to be “Partly False Information.” The story had been “checked by independent fact-checkers,” the label said. Who were the “independent fact-checkers”? Lead Stories, of course!

2. Fact-Checking Facts About Masks

Facebook flagged a Federalist article about the ineffectiveness of masks against Covid after one of its sketchy third-party “fact-checkers” deemed it “inaccurate” and “misleading.” Science Feedback claimed in an email to the Federalist that the article misrepresented the study’s findings even though “Danish researchers found that there was no statistically significant difference between wearing a mask or not in preventing people from contracting COVID-19.”