Careful what you wish for: ThinkProgress gets censored by Facebook fact-checkers

Left-wing opinion site ThinkProgress has found itself censored by Facebook’s ‘fact checkers,’ just weeks after calling on the social network to censor right-wing polemicist Alex Jones. A ThinkProgress article on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, published Sunday, was deemed ‘fake news’ by Facebook’s fact checkers. The article itself claimed that Kavanaugh would overturn Roe v. […]

Google & Soros-backed ‘fact-checkers’ join forces to control news search results

Google has partnered with an organization largely funded by billionaire George Soros to “fact-check” news stories, a move that could affect search results for certain news agencies. Erica Anderson, Partnerships Manager at Google News Lab, announced Thursday that the company will partner with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute to “fact-check” news […]

Dead on arrival? Google’s fake news fact-checkers mired in bias, controversy

Google has introduced a new feature to its search and news services to help combat the spread of fake news and provide better quality information to its users. “For the first time, when you conduct a search on Google that returns an authoritative result containing fact checks for one or more public claims, you will […]