SCOOP: Facebok employees collected evidence showing preferential treatment of right wing figures. FB policy ppl removed misinfo strikes from Breitbart, PragerU, and Diamond & Silk, according to internal docs. And FB fired a key employee who gathered info: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results

FB’s policy says publishers must contact a fact checker that gives the rating if they want to dispute it.

But the docs show that people such as VP of global public policy Joel Kaplan have intervened on behalf of conservatives like Charlie Kirk. In some cases checks were removed

In one case, Diamond & Silk appealed a “false” rating directly with the checker. It was downgraded to “partly false” on merit.

But then someone in “Policy/Leadership” at Facebook intervened and removed it and a previous rating on their page, according to internal convos.

A Facebook employee also posted about what internal data showed about Breitbart:

“A Breitbart escalation marked ‘urgent: end of day’ was resolved on the same day, with all misinformation strikes against Breitbart’s page and against their domain cleared without explanation."

Facebook told us the compay applies it fact checks from partners BUT it reserves the right to overrule them when it comes to actually handing out penalties like removing a page’s ability to advertise. So it can remove “strikes” from Diamond & Silk, Breitbart, PragerU as it likes