A senior engineer collected internal evidence that showed Facebook was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content.

Facebook fired that engineer yesterday, BuzzFeed News reports https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
Facebook Employees Ask Zuckerberg What Would Happen If Trump Used Their Platform To Dispute...

Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation. And they’re worried about how the company will handle the...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
Yet again, a new report provides evidence that Joel Kaplan, a top policy official at Facebook — who served under George W Bush, and is friends with Justice Brett Kavanaugh — is personally intervening on matters concerning right-wing media outlets https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
Facebook Employees Ask Zuckerberg What Would Happen If Trump Used Their Platform To Dispute...

Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation. And they’re worried about how the company will handle the...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
BuzzFeed reports that Kaplan intervened on behalf of Charlie Kirk to remove a fact-check from his content. The story shows a pattern of Facebook clearing checks from popular right-wing publishers, shielding them from "repeat-offender" status
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
BuzzFeed reports that Kaplan intervened on behalf of Charlie Kirk to remove a fact-check from his content. The story shows a pattern of Facebook clearing checks from popular right-wing publishers, shielding them from "repeat-offender" status https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
BuzzFeed reports that Kaplan intervened on behalf of Charlie Kirk to remove a fact-check from his content. The story shows a pattern of Facebook clearing checks from popular right-wing publishers, shielding them from "repeat-offender" status https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
Facebook's fact-checking system is rigged to offload responsibility while obscuring that Facebook is ultimately in control.

Facebook says it can choose to not penalize right-wing publishers even if they repeatedly post lies and propaganda. https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/1291446584107044868?s=20
Facebook's behavior towards right-wing outlets that spew misinformation is analogous to some TV news outlets' approach to Trump surrogates who repeatedly mislead the public

The anchor/platform may do some sort of fact check, but they won't stop inviting them on/ban their account
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