1.“Time To Fact Check The Fact Checking Companies” 🧵 1/24

@FatEmperor @MichaelYeadon3 @ClarkeMicah https://twitter.com/FullFact/status/1339979991908544526
2.Two days ago a tweet was put out by a Fact Checking Company http://www.fullfact.org  and I quote “Lockdown sceptics like Peter Hitchens, Ivor Cummins and Mike Yeadon have argued that a lockdown was not needed, or did not work
4. I’m not writing this 🧵to make a claim one way or the other as to whether the claim is correct. It's important to understand when a company makes a claim that said “fact checking company” is examined as well, as many people rely on these companies for their information.
5. Before I dive into “Full Fact” like any decent researcher I will declare my own conflicts of interest. I follow Ivor Cummins, Mike Yeadon and Peter Hitchens on Twitter and the work that they do.
6. Now that I’ve declared my conflicts of interest, like Full Facts, I’m just going to deal in "facts". Full Facts have a following of 179k followers on Twitter. Here are some facts taken directly from their web site in the About Us section - Who We Are. https://fullfact.org/about/ 
7. They say “Bad information ruins lives. We’re a team of independent fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm it does. We fight bad information in different ways.
8. First, we fact check claims made by politicians, public institutions and journalists, as well as viral content online. We all deserve information we can trust. We follow up on our fact checks. By asking people to correct the record when they get things wrong..
9. ..we can stop and reduce the spread of bad information. We’re developing world-leading technology and new research to spot repeated claims, and find out how bad information can be tackled at a global scale.
10.And we campaign for change that will make bad information rarer and less harmful. Updating our election laws to protect against misleading claims online, for example”
11.They also say “Full Fact is a registered charity. We’re transparent about our funding, and it’s thanks to the support of thousands of people and organisations that our work remains independent. How we’re funded
12.Full Fact doesn’t take sides. We were launched by a cross-party group, and our board includes representatives of different political parties and viewpoints"
http://13.So  now that we have all that information to hand let’s have a look at who has funded them. This is the funding they have received in the last 5 years from funders who have contributed more than £100,000
14.Facebook £895,175
Google £608,320
Nuffield £160,000
Luminate £157,000
Omidyar £115,000
The total amount over 5 years just from these 5 companies, trusts or philanthropic organisations comes to £1,935,495 https://fullfact.org/about/funding/ 
15.Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook and has been named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Facebook is also a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum. Zuckerberg also gave the keynote address in 2011 to the Bilderberg meeting.
17.Eric Schmidt is the Executive Chairman of Alphabet which is Google’s parent company. He has attended 7 Bilderberg meetings since 2008. Sergey Brin along with Larry Page who co-founded Google are both also members of the WEF. Google is also a strategic partner of the WEF.
19. Ory Okolloh is the Managing Partner of Luminate and the Omidyar Network, and has been been named as a Young Global Leader and is also a member of the WEF. Time Magazine called her 100's most influential people in the world. Time is owned by Salesforce who are in the WEF
20. Pierre Omidyar founded EBay and still sits on the board. He also runs the Omidyar network and has contributed $1.5 million to the World Economic Forum. He chairs Luminate, the philanthropic organisation. Ebay owns Paypal and are a member of the WEF.
23. So there we have the main players and companies who are funding Full Fact. There are many other companies who provide funding as well. The Fact Checkers have now been fact checked. All roads lead to Rome or is it the WEF 😀 END
24. Thanks for reading. If you would like to find out more about the Young Global Leaders & The Bilderberg group I have separate threads on them along with all my other threads below 👇 https://twitter.com/fasenfeld/status/1340351027938283520
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