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  • Fact Check: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Declare Richard Jewell To Be A 'Mass Murderer' Or Ban His Defense Raising Money On Facebook

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    Did Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook declare that Richard Jewell was a "mass murderer" and were efforts to raise money for Jewell's defense and family banned from social media? No, that's not true: The claim was oddly made by the lawyer who helped Jewell sue news organizations that published false accusations that the security guard was suspected of planting the backpack…

    • Sep 6, 2020
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fact Check: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Declare Richard Jewell To Be A 'Mass Murderer' Or Ban His Defense Raising Money On Facebook 10 Years Early
  • Fact Check: 'Leaked' Jeffrey Epstein Flight Log Is Fake - 40 Celebrities Including Beyonce, Chrissy Teigen & Barack Obama Were Never On 'Lolita Express'

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    Does a "leaked" Jeffrey Esptein flight log show a list of celebrities, including Beyonce, Chrissy Teigen and Barack Obama, having flown on his plane nicknamed "Lolita Express?" No, that's not true. A list of 125 people circulating on social media claims A-list celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Sheen, Steven Spielberg, Madonna and politicians were on Epstein's flight logs and went…

    • Aug 15, 2020
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: 'Leaked' Jeffrey Epstein Flight Log Is Fake - 40 Celebrities Including Beyonce, Chrissy Teigen & Barack Obama Were Never On 'Lolita Express' Fake Logs!
  • Fact Check: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Post About Enjoying Adrenochrome On Jeffrey Epstein's Private Island

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    Did Mark Zuckerberg post about the participating in a "sexual congress" and enjoying "ingesting adrenochone," but finding it "challenging" to watch it being taken from "little participants" while on Jeffrey Epstein's private island? No, that's not true: It's a fake post using used a photo from the Facebook founder's 2012 Christmas vacation in Maui, Hawaii. A screenshot of the fake…

    • Aug 10, 2020
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Post About Enjoying Adrenochrome On Jeffrey Epstein's Private Island Maui 2012
  • Fake News: Facebook Is NOT Using "Fact-Checking" Bots To Stalk Your Page

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    Is Facebook using "fact-checking" bots to stalk your page and report on your posts? No, that is not true. The popular social media platform says such allegations are false and that no fact-checking bots are being used in such a way. It's unclear where this post originated, but users began sharing it widely in January of 2020. The posts would…

    • Feb 7, 2020
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fake News:  Facebook Is NOT Using "Fact-Checking" Bots To Stalk Your Page No Bots
  • Fake News: Lindsey Graham Did NOT Endorse The Green New Deal In Ad

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    Did Senator Lindsey Graham endorse the Green New Deal proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? No, that's not true: a video ad from The Really Online Lefty League falsely created that impression by using deceptive editing. The ad was created in response to a question Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a recent Congressional hearing in which she asked…

    • Oct 26, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Lindsey Graham Did NOT Endorse The Green New Deal In Ad
  • Art: NOT A Real Video of Mark Zuckerberg Revealing The Truth About Facebook

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    Is a video of Mark Zuckerberg admitting he has total control of the stolen data of billions of people thanks to Spectre real? No, it is a deepfake made for an art project that seeks to tests Facebook's policies on false news when it comes to faked videos. The video in question can be seen here in an Instagram post…

    • Jun 11, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Art: NOT A Real Video of Mark Zuckerberg Revealing The Truth About Facebook
  • The Ultimate Christopher Blair and America's Last Line of Defense Reading List

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    Yesterday Eli Saslow at the Washington Post wrote a fantastic article about Christopher Blair, a man from Maine who has been trolling conservatives and Trump supporters online for years and occasionally even made a living out of it. Blair's main website and Facebook page are named "America's Last Line of Defense" and he uses them to publish various articles and…

    • Nov 19, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    The Ultimate Christopher Blair and America's Last Line of Defense Reading List
  • Fake News: Deciding What Is Fake News Is NOT A Task For The Public Authorities

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    Is deciding what is fake news and what is not a public task for the public authorities? No, that's not true. Only in undemocratic regimes without a free press is it the task of the public authorities to decide what is fake news and what is not. The statement that it should fall to the authorities to do this came…

    • May 23, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Deciding What Is Fake News Is NOT A Task For The Public Authorities
  • Fake News: 'Facebook Courts' Application NOT Launched For Trials By Social Media

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    Was a new application named "Facebook Courts" launched to organise trials via social media, letting Facebook users be the jury and court group page administrators acting as judges? No, that was a satirical story invented by a site that regularily makes up funny but untrue stories, the application is not real and doesn't actually exist. The story came from an…

    • Apr 17, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: 'Facebook Courts' Application NOT Launched For Trials By Social Media
  • Fake News: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Rescind Partnership With Rappler As A Fact-Checker

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    Was the fact-checking partnership to fight fake news between news website Rappler and Facebook that was just announced two days ago already rescinded by Facebook? No, that's not true: that news was made up by a satirical website which had a story marked as fake by Rappler yesterday. An article was published by The Adobo Chronicles on April 14, 2018…

    • Apr 14, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Rescind Partnership With Rappler As A Fact-Checker
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