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  • Meta Ends Third-Party Fact-Checking Partnership in the U.S.

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    Lead Stories was surprised and disappointed to first learn through media reports and a press release about the end of the Meta Third-Party Fact-Checking Partnership of which Lead Stories has been a part since 2019. On January 7, 2025, Joel Kaplan, the newly-appointed Chief Global Affairs Officer at Meta, announced in a press release that Meta will be ending the…

    • Jan 7, 2025
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Meta Ends Third-Party Fact-Checking Partnership in the U.S. Announcement
  • Fact Check: 'Zombie Deer Virus' Did NOT Spread After Mark Zuckerberg's Foundation Vaccinated Deer

    Fact Check

    Did the "zombie deer virus," officially known as chronic wasting disease, spread after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's foundation vaccinated deer across the country? No, that's not true: The foundation, better known as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, told Lead Stories it doesn't "fund such a program." Additionally, the U.S. Department of Agriculture clarified that its only "semi-widespread vaccination program" involving wildlife…

    • Jan 17, 2024
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: 'Zombie Deer Virus' Did NOT Spread After Mark Zuckerberg's Foundation Vaccinated Deer Not The Cause
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence Mark Zuckerberg Banned Elon Musk From Facebook -- Claim Comes From A Satirical Website

    Fact Check

    Did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ban Tesla CEO Elon Musk from Facebook? Has Musk responded to Zuckerberg's alleged statement? No, neither of those are true: This claim comes from a satirical website and was originally posted in March 2023 labeled as satire before it was republished, without the satire label, in August 2023. Lead Stories could not find any evidence…

    • Aug 30, 2023
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: NO Evidence Mark Zuckerberg Banned Elon Musk From Facebook -- Claim Comes From A Satirical Website Satire
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence Italian Government 'Reached Out' To Mark Zuckerberg About A Fight At Colosseum

    Fact Check

    Did the Italian government offer Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg the Colosseum as a location for their fight? No, that's not true: A spokesperson of the Italian Ministry of Culture told Lead Stories that no related paperwork existed to substantiate that claim. The article that started the rumor about the supposed location of the fight was updated to include a…

    • Jul 5, 2023
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: NO Evidence Italian Government 'Reached Out' To Mark Zuckerberg About A Fight At Colosseum No Offer
  • Fact Check: Ohio Is NOT Introducing A New Decapitation Death Penalty Procedure -- Satire From The Onion

    Fact Check

    Did the state of Ohio introduce a new death penalty procedure that "quickly and humanely rips off the heads of death row inmates using powerful robotic arms"? No, that's not true: This spoof news video is from ONN, the Onion News Network -- the video branch of theonion.com, a satire news website. The two-minute-long spoof news video titled "Ohio Replaces…

    • Apr 19, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Ohio Is NOT Introducing A New Decapitation Death Penalty Procedure -- Satire From The Onion Satire
  • Fact Check: NO Proof 5G Causes Nosebleeds, Cancer In The Brain, Low Sperm Count, Headaches Or Insomnia

    Fact Check

    Does 5G cause nosebleeds, cancer in the brain, low sperm count, headaches or insomnia? No, that's not true: A video offers no proof of the claims made about the wireless technology. While the long-term effects of 5G technology are still being researched, numerous public health agencies have determined that it does not present a health risk to people in general.…

    • Jun 23, 2022
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: NO Proof 5G Causes Nosebleeds, Cancer In The Brain, Low Sperm Count, Headaches Or Insomnia No Proof
  • Fact Check: Video Is NOT Real Newscast Claiming Mark Zuckerberg Is CIA Agent -- It's 2011 Satire

    Fact Check

    Does a video posted on social media show a newscast with real journalists describing Mark Zuckerberg as a CIA agent and Facebook as a CIA surveillance replacement program? No, that's not true: The original video and audio heard in this post were produced more than a decade ago by the Onion News Network (ONN), part of a satirical news website.…

    • Jun 22, 2022
    • by: Kaiyah Clarke
    Fact Check: Video Is NOT Real Newscast Claiming Mark Zuckerberg Is CIA Agent -- It's 2011 Satire Satire Actors
  • Context Matters: Why Lead Stories Fact Checked The BMJ

    Analysis

    On November 10, 2021, Lead Stories published a fact check about an article published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on November 2, 2021. In response, the BMJ published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg on December 17, 2021, calling our fact check "inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible." We addressed their concerns in a December 18, 2021, article, going over their…

    • Jan 27, 2022
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Context Matters: Why Lead Stories Fact Checked The BMJ
  • Fact Check: Video Game 'Omikron: The Nomad Soul' Was NOT Created By Bill Gates

    Fact Check

    Was a video game named "Omikron: The Nomad Soul" created by Bill Gates, and does it have any ties to the emergence of the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus? No, that's not true: Although the game was originally made to be used with a Microsoft Windows operating system, it was not created by Gates. Other claims about the…

    • Dec 14, 2021
    • by: Christiana Dillard
    Fact Check: Video Game 'Omikron: The Nomad Soul' Was NOT Created By Bill Gates Windows OS
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