Facebook Throttles Federalist Article Arguing Chauvin Verdict Was Tainted By Politics After Juror Confirms That’s True
On Friday afternoon, Facebook began attaching a ridiculous fact check to my top-read Federalist article of last week titled, “There’s No Way Americans Can Trust The Jury’s Chauvin Verdict.” Anyone who wanted to share the article on Facebook was forced to do so with the opinion-based “fact check” attached, which means Facebook also likely throttled the distribution of the article on its platform.
Facebook and the factcheckers it pays have a history of targeting The Federalist due not to factual errors but political bias. The more “fact checkers” target a publication, the more Facebook and Google choke off that publication’s traffic.
On Friday afternoon, Facebook began attaching a ridiculous fact check to my top-read Federalist article of last week titled, “There’s No Way Americans Can Trust The Jury’s Chauvin Verdict.” Anyone who wanted to share the article on Facebook was forced to do so with the opinion-based “fact check” attached, which means Facebook also likely throttled the distribution of the article on its platform.
Facebook and the factcheckers it pays have a history of targeting The Federalist due not to factual errors but political bias. The more “fact checkers” target a publication, the more Facebook and Google choke off that publication’s traffic.