‘There is No Evidence People Ever Saved Bacon Grease’ Facebook ‘Fact Check’
A viral, misleading Facebook post “joked” that Facebook fact-checkers denied evidence that people ever saved bacon grease or aluminum foil.
A viral, misleading Facebook post “joked” that Facebook fact-checkers denied evidence that people ever saved bacon grease or aluminum foil.
Several posts about the June 2021 death of Camilla Canepa are circulating — many minus Facebook’s “vaccine info” box.
A post claiming that the far right social media pundit “won a huge lawsuit against Facebook fact-checkers” ironically exemplifies the objective of the Facebook initiative.
A surge of interest in child trafficking and the restricted #savethechildren hashtag isn’t organic — it was a subset of COVID-19 conspiracy theories in the summer of 2020.
A photo mocking the former U.S. Vice President spread just before more news appeared about Facebook improprieties.
A “satire site” racked up six-figure shares with an untrue claim about football player Tom Brady.
A viral Facebook post claims that Japan marks “looters and rioters” with indelible ink.
An inaccurate and misleading (but viral) post about a shattered military bench in Florida falsely linked the broken monument to June 2020 protests over the death of George Floyd.
Thanks to Facebook’s mishandling of its fact-checking initiative, disinformation about COVID-19 and masks is being amplified and recommendations to wear masks are being suppressed.
Facebook marked the image as a “true” fact check, but the uncited claim used an unrelated image that dated back to at least 2015 — years before COVID-19 came into existence.