PNN with Jeanine Molloff - How Facebook Censors with Bogus ’Fact Checkers’

This week on our Sunday show, the Big Story will be about Facebook censorship using dubious fact-checking companies like AFP or Agency France-Presse. Now, normally, I actually respect AFP, but recently I was 'fact-checked' on Facebook for something I REPOSTED. It wasn't my actual posting. It originated with Dan Price. If that name sounds familiar, it should. Dan Price is the head of a company called Gravity Payments, who established a minimum wage for his workers --of $70,000. Price tweeted how the current rise in consumer prices wasn't due to inflation--it was nothing but price-gouging.  I agree with Price, so I reposted his message. I received a message from Facebook that the repost was 'missing context.' For God's sake--it was reposted from a tweet! How much 'context' can a tweet have?! Facebook added the following to my reposting: "Missing Context. The same information was checked in another post by independent fact-checkers." So, I checked the link Facebook sent. It was from AFP. I read the article the fact-checker used to base this 'correction.' AFP screwed up. I will show you why--and why fact-checking should be left to groups that do NOT accept payment from corporate clients as AFP now does.  Check it out. Jeanine