<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post&#8217;s</a> resident fact-checker was treated to a virtual earful over his Wednesday piece claiming that the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza had a &#8220;good track record&#8221; when it came to accurately reporting death tolls.
Fact-checker Glenn Kessler was responding to statements from Biden administration officials — and President Joe Biden himself &#8212; who had said that he had &#8220;no confidence&#8221; in the numbers coming out of any organization controlled by Hamas terrorists.
&#8220;I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.&#8221;
Kessler, however, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/01/bidens-dismissal-reported-palestinian-death-toll/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared to argue</a> that the health ministry could be trusted. He explained that the Biden administration had cited the Gaza Health Ministry in the past and that the United Nations cited their numbers as well.
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Fact Checker: The president said he had “no confidence” in the figures issued by the Hamas-run health ministry, but it has a good track record on reporting death tolls. <a href="https://t.co/5xh4k2zq5d">https://t.co/5xh4k2zq5d</a>
&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1719698820664021205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But critics were not buying Kessler&#8217;s argument, and said so via X.
&#8220;This piece on the accuracy of Hamas Health Ministry&#8217;s casualty figures, which produced 27 seconds after Israeli strikes, is predicated on the idea that the UN, which operates in Gaza only with the understanding that Hamas exerts editorial control over it, is a reliable narrator,&#8221; Noah Rothman said, adding, &#8220;It was only about two weeks ago the UN announced that Hamas had stolen a shipment of fuel but then speedily deleted the announcement. No one with any experience covering UNRWA needs to ask why.&#8221;
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It was only about two weeks ago the UN announced that Hamas had stolen a shipment of fuel but then speedily deleted the announcement. No one with any experience covering UNRWA needs to ask why <a href="https://t.co/Mg8roMeCoF">https://t.co/Mg8roMeCoF</a>
&mdash; Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) <a href="https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1719744121445785642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;FACT CHECK: Alderaan Death Toll Greatly Exaggerated, Says Generally Reliable &amp; Unbiased Galactic Empire Health Ministry,&#8221; Dan McLaughlin <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1719746850788434145" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Another <a href="https://twitter.com/BlameBigGovt/status/1719778166531637461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;Democracy dies in useful idiocy.&#8221;
&#8220;What on earth is happening at WaPo where they think terrorists are reliable sources,&#8221; Steve Guest posted, tagging one of President Biden&#8217;s spokesmen (@AndrewJBates46) and adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to assist in fighting back against this insane fact check. Your guy has this one right. Yes, WaPo is coming to the defense of Hamas terrorists to attack your boss.&#8221;
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What on earth is happening at WaPo where they think terrorists are reliable sources?<a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewJBates46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewJBates46</a> &#8211; I&#39;m happy to assist in fighting back against this insane fact check. Your guy has this one right.
Yes, WaPo is coming to the defense of Hamas terrorists to attack your boss. <a href="https://t.co/UZPcvb9iRK">https://t.co/UZPcvb9iRK</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1719758399557050780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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WaPo Fact-Checker Dragged For Saying Hamas Has ‘Good Track Record’ On Reporting Death Tolls

WaPo Fact-Checker Dragged For Saying Hamas Has 'Good Track Record' On Reporting Death Tolls

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro exposed the powerful global entities working to deplatform and demonetize conservative voices in a new <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1686109381761318912?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter thread</a>. 
Shapiro explained in the Monday thread how the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> (WEF), the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), and NewsGuard were all working together to crack down on so-called “misinformation” and dictate what media is “safe” for advertising.  
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🧵Here’s how the World Economic Forum is quietly working to demonetize and deplatform right-of-center voices, including <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>, using authoritarian tactics and hall monitor “fact-checkers” like <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsGuardRating?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewsGuardRating</a>. <a href="https://t.co/xgukS5n6d5">https://t.co/xgukS5n6d5</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1686109381761318912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The WFA, which <a href="https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/2017/01/30/Agency-Trading-Desks-still-dominate-programmatic-but-advertisers-are-demanding-a-new-more-transparent-relationship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">represents</a> 90% of “global marketing communications,” launched the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) in 2019. Soon after, the World Economic Forum <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-takes-on-corporations-behind-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adopted</a> GARM as one of its “flagship” projects. 
“GARM is an unholy alliance between huge advertisers and social media companies like Google’s YouTube, China’s TikTok, Meta’s Facebook &amp; Instagram, and even Twitter/X and Snapchat. GARM developed something they call the ‘brand safety floor &amp; suitability framework,’” Shapiro explained. 
The Daily Wire co-founder said the framework might be fine if it stuck to things like blocking child pornography, but it also included cracking down on viewpoints that GARM found objectionable. 
“But their authoritarian nature kicked in, &amp; they decided to ban cultural commentary they don&#8217;t approve of, like when we say men can&#8217;t be women,” Shapiro said. 
“Legacy media, new media, and even independent podcasters are subject to these rules. If you violate them and say true things the elites don&#8217;t like, they can blacklist you, demonetize you, or deplatform you,” he added. 
Shapiro said that he doesn’t think that WEF chairman Klaus Schwab believes that transgender-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney is actually a woman, but that supporting that position degrades family and social fabric, “making power easier to take from the top.” He added that it also makes the activists marching against capitalism now on the side of the powerful. 
One of the organizations that “helps” advertisers meet GARM standards is NewsGuard, which rates American media on supposedly apolitical criteria. According to NewsGuard, it helps <a href="https://www.newsguardtech.com/press/newsguard-offers-targeted-services-free-audits-to-help-brands-meet-new-garm-misinformation-standards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identify</a> so-called “misinformation” that is “inappropriate for advertising support.”
“The little compliance crusaders at NewsGuard engage in performative virtue signaling by going around issuing scores to media outlets based on their allegedly ‘apolitical’ criteria,” Shapiro said. 
The partnership has made even some lawmakers concerned. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed officials from GARM and the WFA, saying that the two appeared to be facilitating “collusion among their members in a manner that may violate U.S. antitrust law.”
The end goal of the initiatives, Shapiro explained, is to control information and restrict what people can and cannot be exposed to.
“There are certain industries where a violation of antitrust law isn’t going to result in disaster. The Left’s increasing desire to monopolize news and commentary isn&#8217;t one of them. Take the time to know the players like your freedom depends on it, because it does,” Shapiro concluded. 
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Greentech Festival 2020 – Day 1

Ben Shapiro Details The Global Entities Working To ‘Demonetize And Deplatform’ Conservative Voices

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The Republican National Committee shared a comprehensive list of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> biggest whoppers on Tuesday, from his repeated claims that he drove an 18-wheeler to his insistence that a 2004 house fire — which was reportedly contained to his kitchen — had very nearly killed his wife and a couple of fire-fighters.
The list, which the RNC shared on Tuesday, detailed &#8220;21 made-up stories Biden has told about himself as president.&#8221;
First on the list was Biden&#8217;s claim that he &#8220;used to drive&#8221; an 18-wheeler.
&#8220;I used to drive a tractor trailer … I only did it for part of a summer,&#8221; Biden said in 2021 — but <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/03/joe-biden/no-joe-biden-wasnt-tractor-trailer-driver/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Politifact</a>, there is no evidence he ever did that. He did ride in a tractor-trailer once as a senator, however, and he drove a bus one summer during law school.
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1. Biden claimed — on multiple occasions — he “used to drive” an 18-wheeler.
Biden **rode** in an 18-wheeler once nearly 50 years ago. He’s never driven one.<a href="https://t.co/o7Za8LaR4J">https://t.co/o7Za8LaR4J</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899797408563200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Whopper number two was Biden&#8217;s claim that he spoke with the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-spoke-to-insulin-inventor-theres-just-one-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inventor of insulin</a> — but of the several people credited with the discovery of artificial insulin, two were dead prior to Biden&#8217;s birth and there is no evidence that he ever had any contact with the others.
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3. Biden claimed he “had a house burn down with my wife in it” and said they “almost lost a couple firefighters.”
In 2005, Biden’s house had a “small” fire that was contained to the kitchen and “there were no injuries.”<a href="https://t.co/smEweQxg4E">https://t.co/smEweQxg4E</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899801410011137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Number three was Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-lost-an-awful-lot-in-house-fire-jill-biden-reported-the-small-kitchen-fire-that-was-doused-in-20-minutes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeated claim</a> that a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/fire-department-responds-to-biden-account-of-2004-fire-calls-incident-insignificant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2004 fire</a> in Delaware nearly burned the house down with his wife in it and could have claimed the lives of a couple of the firemen as well — but local reporting suggests that the fire was quickly contained to the kitchen and that no one was injured.
Next on the list was Biden’s claim that he had grown up in the Puerto Rican community in Delaware — where in 1970, Puerto Ricans accounted for 0.39% of the population.
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5. Biden said he remembered “spending time” and “going to” the Tree of Life synagogue after the 2018 shooting.
The synagogue said Biden never visited.<a href="https://t.co/9z0C8jo0fl">https://t.co/9z0C8jo0fl</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899805625196554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Then came Biden’s claim that he visited Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue after the shooting — despite the synagogue having no record of any such visit — and Biden’s assertion that he had served as a liaison to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the Six Day War. That claim was problematic due to the fact that Biden was not yet a senator — and Meir was not yet PM — when that war took place.
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7. Biden claimed his “first job offer” came from Boise Cascade, an Idaho lumber company.
The company said they have “no record of President Biden’s application or of him having worked for the company.”<a href="https://t.co/xLYMpUa1z9">https://t.co/xLYMpUa1z9</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899809563656192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Next came Biden’s “first job offer” — which he said came from an Idaho lumber company that has no record of him applying for a job — and his “first arrest,” which he said was for a civil rights protest. However, there are no records showing that Biden was ever arrested or even attended such a protest.
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9. Biden claimed that he had a conversation with an Amtrak conductor in 2012 or 2013 about traveling over 1 million miles on Air Force Two.
The conductor retired in 1993, passed away in 2014, and Biden didn’t reach 1 million miles on AF2 until 2015.<a href="https://t.co/92RvdxUtFc">https://t.co/92RvdxUtFc</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899813468545034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden’s now-infamous Amtrak story — in which he claimed to have discussed reaching the million-mile mark with a conductor who died before he reached that milestone — was fib number nine.
Coming in at number ten was Biden’s claim that he was “appointed to the Naval Academy in 1965” — despite the fact that he graduated from the University of Delaware in that same year.
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11. Biden claimed oil refinery pollution is the reason “I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.”
Biden doesn’t have cancer. He *had* skin cancer, but the cause was sun exposure — not pollution. <a href="https://t.co/cKFXXoZNCp">https://t.co/cKFXXoZNCp</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899818463961089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Then came Biden’s claim that he <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-appears-to-claim-he-has-cancer-from-oil-refineries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">got cancer</a> from oil-refinery pollution — he did have skin cancer, but that was attributed to sun exposure — and his insistence that he was a full professor at University of Pennsylvania. Records show he never actually taught a class.
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13. Biden claimed his “great-grandpop was” a coal miner — something he has been saying for decades. 
He wasn’t.<a href="https://t.co/qbKkOW64V5">https://t.co/qbKkOW64V5</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899824277266437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Next came the claim that his “great-grandpop was a coal miner” (he was not) and his assertion that as VP, he had finally gotten an overdue <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-his-uncle-won-purple-heart-during-world-war-ii-battle-but-details-make-bidens-story-impossible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purple Heart</a> for his Uncle Frank. Biden’s Uncle Frank passed away before he was elected Vice President, and did not earn a Purple Heart.
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15. Biden claimed he hit a ball 368 feet “off the wall” at his second Congressional baseball game.
Biden actually went 0-2, according to a 1974 newspaper article. <a href="https://t.co/dXbPJJrfEP">pic.twitter.com/dXbPJJrfEP</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899828475863040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden also claimed (whopper #15) to have hit a long ball “368 feet off the wall” at his second Congressional Baseball game — where in reality, he was 0 for 2.
Keeping with the sports theme, number 16 was Biden’s claim that his grandfather was an All-American football star at Santa Clara University — but NCAA and SCU records suggest otherwise.
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17. Biden claimed he “could have been an All-American” football player.
Biden played on the *freshman* football team for part of *one* semester in college. That’s it. <a href="https://t.co/rgBhoddAwp">pic.twitter.com/rgBhoddAwp</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899832854618120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden went on to claim (number 17) that he could have been an All-American, but he played on the freshman team for only one semester. He also said (number 18) that he “almost” walked on to an NFL team and could have made it in the pros.
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19. Biden claimed he was “shot at” overseas — something he also lied about in 2007.
It never happened.<a href="https://t.co/kX424rAwhE">https://t.co/kX424rAwhE</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899837552517120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Number 19 revisited Biden’s 2007 claim that he was “shot at” while traveling overseas and number 20 was a flashback to his time as a county councilman. He told a story about a woman who called and asked him to remove a dead dog from her lawn, and despite claiming one time that he put it on her doorstep, he said another time that he had removed it.
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21. Biden repeatedly claimed he was “involved” in the civil rights movement.
None of that is remotely true. Biden even admitted in 1987 he was “not an activist.”<a href="https://t.co/ijty46nY83">pic.twitter.com/ijty46nY83</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1612899842207916035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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And rounding out the list at number 21 was the president’s oft-repeated claim that he was actively involved in the civil rights movement — despite no evidence that he was involved at all.

President Biden Marks Two Year Anniversary Of January 6 Insurrection

RNC Drops Comprehensive List Of Biden’s Whoppers, Fish Stories, And Fibs

RNC Drops Comprehensive List Of Biden's Whoppers, Fish Stories, And Fibs

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Joe Biden

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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tech giants</a> on Tuesday announced a $13 million grant to fund <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fact-checking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global fact-checking</a> projects. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> and YouTube <a href="https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/google-and-youtube-partner-with-poynters-international-fact-checking-network-on-13-2-million-grant-for-the-global-fact-checking-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they would provide financial support to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an arm of the Poynter Institute, to support “fact-checking initiatives” through 2025. 
“The world needs fact-checking more than ever before. This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction,” said Baybars Örsek, the IFCN’s executive director. “And while there’s much work to be done, this partnership has sparked meaningful collaboration and an important step.”
About $12 million of the grant will go to the group’s Global Fact Check Fund, which will disburse money to fact-checking groups from around the world that adhere to its Code of Principles. These include groups in the U.S., Brazil, Nepal, Ukraine, Norway, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, and India.
Örsek added that IFCN was “grateful to Google and YouTube for their commitment to bolster fact-checkers in an ever-increasing environment of mis- and disinformation.”
According to the Poynter Institute, some funds will go toward a foundation to establish a “neutral and independent selection committee” and other expansions of the fact-checking program. 
The IFCN was established in 2015, and its advisory board <a href="https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> individuals from various organizations, including PolitiFact and The Washington Post. 
Olivia Ma, who manages Google’s Global News Program and Ecosystem, said that the company believed it had a role in combating “misinformation” and guiding people toward making “informed decisions.” 
“Combating misinformation is an ongoing global challenge for society. We take seriously our role in helping to fight misinformation by continually investing in products, programs and partnerships that help people access high-quality information,” Ma said. 
Some have raised concerns about the growing emphasis on fact-checking in recent years, with critics questioning whether the motivation is to suppress conservative or differing viewpoints. For example, the theory that the novel coronavirus may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, was initially widely maligned by certain fact-checkers as the origin of the respiratory virus. However, Facebook later reversed course, saying that the theory was now up for debate and had not been thoroughly discredited. At around the same time, PolitiFact <a href="https://www.politifact.com/li-meng-yan-fact-check/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retracted</a> a fact-check it had run on the claim saying that the theory was now more “disputed.” 
This year, Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a former PolitiFact source, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-former-politifact-fact-checker-who-quit-over-left-wing-bias-wanted-me-to-help-them-nail-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire that the fact-checking group wanted him to &#8220;help them nail Republicans.” Riedl also claimed PolitiFact would start with a &#8220;rating&#8221; of a claim and then work backward to justify that rating.

Google Opens Cloud Hub In Krakow, Poland

‘The World Needs Fact-Checking’: Tech Giants Giving $13 Million To Fund Global Fact-Checking Initiatives

Tech Giants Giving $13 Million Toward Global Fact-Checking Initiatives

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Fact checkers swung into action after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-fing-evidence-russell-brand-blasts-biden-pfizer-after-exec-admits-covid-vaccine-was-never-tested-to-stop-transmission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pfizer executive</a> acknowledged this week that the company never tested its COVID vaccine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scandalous-pfizer-exec-tells-eu-lawmaker-covid-jab-was-never-tested-to-show-it-blocked-transmission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against transmission</a>, but they seem to have missed the critics’ point in their rush to defend the pharmaceutical giant.
Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, answered no Monday when asked by European Union Member of Parliament Rob Roos if the company tested its mRNA vaccine on stopping transmission before rolling it out. The Dutch lawmaker later called it “scandalous” given that vaccine passports and mandates were pushed globally on the implication that they would stop transmission.
The &#8220;scandalous&#8221; parties Roos referred to were global governments, not Pfizer.
While there is no evidence Pfizer ever claimed its vaccine was tested for transmission, the notion that the vaccines offered such protection against the spread of COVID was seized upon by governments to compel people to get vaccinated. The distinction between individuals contracting and transmitting COVID was lost as governments sought to stop the virus from spreading.
“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” President Joe Biden said in July 2021. Two months earlier, White House Chief Medical Adviser <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-vaccinated-people-become-dead-ends-for-the-coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a> said that vaccinated people become “dead ends” for the virus, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in March 2021 that data from the CDC suggested that &#8220;vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick.”
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🚨 BREAKING:
In COVID hearing, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pfizer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pfizer</a> director admits: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vaccine</a> was never tested on preventing transmission.
&quot;Get vaccinated for others&quot; was always a lie.
The only purpose of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID</a> passport: forcing people to get vaccinated.
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Roos said his point after Monday’s testimony was that compelling young, healthy people who were not afraid of contracting the virus themselves to nonetheless get the jab in order to ensure they did not spread it was built on a myth.
“Millions of people worldwide felt forced to get vaccinated because of the myth that ‘you do it for others,’” he said in the video, which has been viewed more than 10 million times. “Now this turned out to be a cheap lie. This should be exposed.”
Roos later told The Associated Press he was not claiming Pfizer lied, but that the foundation governments used to press for mandates was bogus.
“I take fundamental rights seriously,” Roos said. “For governments to infringe on them, they need a massive amount of evidence to prove the necessity. In this case, it was not even a part of the Pfizer trials.”
Fact checkers from The Associated Press, Politifact and other groups that have faithfully toed the government line throughout the pandemic were quick to claim that since Pfizer never said it tested its vaccine against transmission — Small’s remark was neither an “admission” nor news.
“Pfizer never claimed to have tested the impact of its COVID-19 vaccine on transmission ahead of its 2020 release, despite misleading claims suggesting the company lied about this issue,” wrote The Associated Press.
“Posts online are saying Pfizer &#8216;admitted&#8217; that the company did not test whether their COVID-19 vaccine reduced transmission prior to rolling it out – something they were not required to do, nor claimed to have done,” wrote Reuters.
But even if Pfizer never made the claim, fact checkers strong suggested it. A <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/17/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-protect-against-infection-transmission/6403678001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact-check by USA Today</a> in November 2021, titled “Fact check: Vaccines protect against contracting, spreading COVID-19,” quoted Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University, saying the vaccine did guard against transmission.
&#8220;Vaccines provide significant protection from &#8216;getting it&#8217; – infection – and &#8216;spreading it&#8217; – transmission – even against the delta variant,&#8221; Iwasaki said.
The protection that the COVID vaccines provide to contracting the virus has also been called into question. When the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna were first rolled out, pharmaceutical companies, government health officials and political leaders hailed them as powerful and effective. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in April 2021 that early testing showed its vaccine was “100 per cent effective against severe COVID-19.”
When vaccinated people began getting COVID anyway, their cases were initially deemed “breakthrough” cases. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/quadruple-vaccinated-pfizer-ceo-tests-positive-for-covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bourla, who got COVID in August</a>, admitted in January his company’s vaccine provides “very limited protection, if any” against contracting the Omicron variant.
Over the last year, many experts have acknowledged that the vaccines may not stop transmission or contraction of the virus, but may lessen the symptoms and prevent deaths. Even if true, say some experts, that is scant justification for vaccine mandates and passports.
“It would be irrational, legally indefensible and contrary to the public interest for government to mandate vaccines absent any evidence that the vaccines are effective in stopping the spread of the pathogen they target,” Nobel Prize-winning virologist Luc Montagnier and constitutional scholar Jed Rubenfeld <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-makes-bidens-vaccine-mandates-obsolete-covid-healthcare-osha-evidence-supreme-court-11641760009" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote earlier this year in The Wall Street Journal</a>. “Mandating a vaccine to stop the spread of a disease requires evidence that the vaccines will prevent infection or transmission (rather than efficacy against severe outcomes like hospitalization or death).”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meta</a>, the parent company of Facebook, announced its own set of &#8220;policies and safeguards&#8221; to political discourse ahead of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 midterms</a>.
In a <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2022/08/meta-plans-for-2022-us-midterms/">blog post</a> Tuesday, Meta announced that it would implement a series of policies to be used in the 2022 midterm elections, policies that are &#8220;consistent&#8221; with the same policies the platform used during the 2020 election. Those policies include &#8220;Preventing Election and Voter Interference,&#8221; &#8220;Connecting People With Reliable Information,&#8221; and &#8220;Transparency Around Elections and Advertising.&#8221;
&#8220;With the 2022 US midterms on the horizon, we are setting out how our approach applies in this election cycle, which is largely consistent with the policies and safeguards we had in place during the 2020 US Presidential election,&#8221; Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg wrote in the announcement.
&#8220;Our approach to the 2022 US midterms applies learnings from the 2020 election cycle and exceeds the measures we implemented during the last midterm election in 2018. This includes advanced security operations to fight foreign interference and domestic influence campaigns, our network of independent fact-checking partners, our industry-leading transparency measures around political advertising and pages, as well as new measures to help keep poll workers safe,&#8221; the announcement added.
Under the heading &#8220;Preventing Election and Voter Interference,&#8221; Meta touted its existing policies around removing hate speech, noting that it had already banned 270 white supremacist organizations and removed more than 2.5 million posts for hate speech in just the first quarter of 2022. The company then touted its relationships with state and local election officials, federal agencies and industry peers.
It went on to outline its content removal policies. &#8220;As was the case in the US in 2020, election-related content we will remove includes misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods of voting; misinformation about who can vote, whether a vote will be counted, and qualifications for voting; and calls for violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election. We will reject ads encouraging people not to vote or calling into question the legitimacy of the upcoming election.&#8221;
The company also announced that it would prohibit new political, electoral, and social issue ads during the final week before the election.
Meta announced additional policies under the heading &#8220;Connecting People With Reliable Information.&#8221; The company touted its continuing feature sending notifications to Facebook users with voting information, and its partnership with election officials.
Meta also announced it would be implementing Spanish-language features for voters who interact with Spanish-language content. It also outlined changes to its election fact-checking system. &#8220;We have 10 fact-checking partners in the US to address viral misinformation,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;We add warning labels to content they debunk so that people can decide for themselves what to read, trust and share. We’re also investing an additional $5 million in fact-checking and media literacy initiatives ahead of the midterms,&#8221; including fact-checking services on WhatsApp; giving money to fact checkers to increase their capacity during the elections, and developing &#8220;media literacy resources to teach people how to identify misinformation for themselves.&#8221;
The changes to Meta&#8217;s policies come as the company announced that it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-blasts-decision-decreasing-reach-of-facebook-political-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decrease the reach</a> of political content on Facebook more broadly. Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasted the platform in a tweet earlier this month. &#8220;Facebook made sure no one saw the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election,&#8221; McCarthy wrote. &#8220;But now that America has record inflation, rising crime, &amp; a border crisis — all as a result of Dem policies — Facebook is shutting down more &#8216;political content&#8217; to hide the truth from Americans.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-activates-steps-to-protect-midterms-fight-misleading-narratives">Twitter</a> introduced a similar set of policies to “protect civic conversation” ahead of the midterms last week, as The Daily Wire reported.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> seems to have told a football fib during a speech Friday at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/naval-academy">U.S. Naval Academy</a>, claiming he was accepted to the vaunted military institution back in 1965, but declined because future <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nfl">NFL Hall of Fame Roger Staubach</a> blocked his path to playing for the Midshipmen.
Biden said he instead went to the University of Delaware, which is true. But he never played varsity football there, and there&#8217;s no evidence he ever declined a spot at Navy. The years don&#8217;t come close to matching up, either. It appears to be the latest example of Biden trying to fit in with a crowd of people he&#8217;s addressing by saying he&#8217;s been in their shoes.
&#8220;I was appointed to the Academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972,&#8221; Biden said, as part of a story about Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, who he defeated to became a U.S. senator.
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Joe Biden falsely claimed he “was appointed to the [Naval] Academy in 1965” while speaking to Naval Academy graduates today.
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&#8220;I didn’t come to the Academy because I wanted to be a football star,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;And you had a guy named Staubach and Bellino here. So I went to Delaware.&#8221;
Biden would&#8217;ve been 23 in 1965 and graduated from the University of Delaware that same year.
Biden was a pretty good wide receiver at Wilmington&#8217;s Archmere Academy, <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/the-story-of-joe-bidens-high-school-football-heroics-202613291.html">once catching three touchdown passes</a> from quarterback Bill Peterman during their 1-6 junior year. During his 1960 senior year at Archmere, with a new coach, Biden scored 10 touchdowns in eight games and the team went undefeated.
“In almost any group I was the leader,” Biden later wrote in his autobiography. “I was the leading scorer on our undefeated and untied football team my senior year, and I didn’t lack for confidence on the field.”
Staubach and Joe Bellino, the only two Navy players to win the Heisman trophy, were gone before 1965. Staubach graduated in 1964, and went off to fight in Vietnam before coming home and having a storied career with the Dallas Cowboys. Bellino was a halfback who graduated in 1961, also fought in Vietnam, and had a brief career in the NFL.
In 2008, Biden took heat for telling what seemed to be a tall football tale about playing for the University of Delaware against Ohio University.
&#8220;I came here in 1963, and I had to go back, I just double checked my memory – you know, you get my age and you’re not so sure of it, you know, your glory days look more glorious than they really were and all that, so we went back on the Internet and I just want you to know, I came here in October 1963, and we beat you Bobcats 29-12,&#8221; he claimed.
But a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121221225751/http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/16/14489712-fact-check-bidens-too-tall-football-tale">subsequent fact-check</a> determined that Biden had only briefly been on the school&#8217;s freshman football team during the 1961 season.
&#8220;Joe Biden DID play on the 1961 University of Delaware freshman team, but did not finish out the season in order to earn a letter,&#8221; Delaware Sports Information Director Scott Selheimer said in 2012. &#8220;He later came out for the team in the spring of 1963 and took part in practices, but did not end up playing varsity football in the fall of 1963 when the official competition season takes place. Thus he was not listed on the roster.&#8221;
An aide to Biden at the time later clarified that the then-vice president meant he had gone to Ohio to cheer for Delaware, not actually play.
&#8220;The Vice President went to Athens with the University of Delaware football team to cheer,&#8221; the aide said. &#8220;As he makes clear in his statement, he played football, but not during the fall of his junior year.&#8221;
Biden’s truth-challenged stories are legendary, from his infamous tangle with a mythical 1950s gangbanger named &#8220;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-corn-pop-gang-leader-wilmington-delaware-michael-harriot-lifeguard-root-retelling-race-1459303">Cornpop</a>&#8221; to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-tells-the-story-of-big-mama-and-repeats-false-claim-he-used-to-drive-a-truck">claim he drove a tractor trailer</a> and worked with a dispatcher named &#8220;Big Mama.&#8221;
Last year, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/tree-of-life-synagogue-disputes-joe-bidens-claim-he-visited/">Biden told Jewish leaders</a> he went to the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the mass murder of 11 people in 2018. The synagogue said he never visited and the White House <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/03/white-house-admits-bidens-didnt-tree-of-life-synagogue/">clarified</a> by saying he phoned the rabbi the next year.
He also<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/biden-claims-first-job-offer-from-idaho-lumber-company-no-record-of-it/"> told an Idaho audience</a> that his “first job offer” came from local lumber company Boise Cascade, of which company officials said they had no record. Biden also claimed in 2020 that he was arrested in the 1980s when he tried to see anti-Apartheid leader and civil rights icon Nelson Mandela in prison, but later <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/28/joe-biden-admits-he-was-not-arrested-during-trip-to-south-africa-in-1970s/">admitted that it was untrue</a>.

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Biden’s Football Fib: Roger Staubach Blocked His Path At Navy

Biden's Football Fib: Roger Staubach Blocked His Path At Navy

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An economist who formerly worked with the fact-checking site PolitiFact as one of the website’s go-to sources for fact-finding says he quit over the company’s Left-wing bias.
Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told The Daily Wire that he worked with PolitiFact over a decade ago when the fact checking site had first launched. Riedl said PolitiFact journalists consulted him on dozens of articles and ratings before he stopped working with the fact-checking site over its bias.
“Conservatives have a right to be suspicious of PolitiFact because their reporters openly shared their biases with their sources,” Riedl told The Daily Wire. “They would start with a rating and then ask their sources for ammunition to justify a preset rating. It was brazen.”
PolitiFact approached Riedl around 2007 to see if he would be a regular expert source for reporters to call for fact checking. At the time, Riedl was working as an economic expert at the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and had developed a reputation for being critical of former President George W. Bush’s financial policy.
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“I had established a pretty notable reputation in Washington for pummeling President Bush for runaway spending, and it got me a lot of media love at the time — that I was a Heritage Foundation employee who was criticizing a Republican president,” Reidl said.
“For a lot of reporters, the best source is a conservative willing to trash Republicans. They came to me and basically thought that because I had criticized Bush so much on runaway spending, that I would provide a veneer of bipartisan credibility by trashing republicans in their fact-checking,” he explained.
“When I started criticizing Obama for the same thing a few years later, suddenly all the reporters didn’t like me,” Reidl continued.
Riedl stated that PolitiFact reporters revealed their bias in several ways. According to Riedl, reporters would explicitly ask for quotes hitting Republicans, or they would ask if Riedl knew of any outrageous statements from Republicans that were ripe for fact-checking.
Riedl said many times reporters would consult with him only to disagree with his assessment and leave his comments out of their articles. Reporters would go “expert shopping,” or contact specialists with similar biases to the reporter in order to substantiate a preset narrative. He said that many articles he consulted on were published without his comments, but they contained remarks from different experts who had voiced opinions critical of the GOP or conservatives. 
“They were employing double standards. They were using straw men. They were presetting the rating before they talked to people,” Riedl recalled. “And their response was if you are not going to give us the ammunition and arguments we want, then we’ll find someone else who will.”
In 2013, The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University<a href="https://cmpa.gmu.edu/study-media-fact-checker-says-republicans-lie-more/"> reviewed</a> the ratings of 100 PolitiFact articles from the first four months of former President Barack Obama’s second term. The researchers, using PolitiFact fact checks, reported that a “leading media fact-checking organization rates Republicans as less trustworthy than Democrats.”
The researchers did not audit the fact-check ratings, nor did they process through which sources PolitiFact had chosen to consult or which statements the site chose to fact check. Beyond the researchers’ topline takeaway, they admit that the best their study can show is “how individuals, groups, political parties, etc. are portrayed in this increasingly important genre of political journalism” (emphasis added). 
The findings, at least, are as supportive of Riedl’s claims as those of the university researchers. According to the researchers:
<blockquote>PolitiFact rated 32% of Republican claims as “false” or “pants on fire,” compared to 11% of Democratic claims – a 3 to 1 margin. Conversely, Politifact rated 22% of Democratic claims as “entirely true” compared to 11% of Republican claims – a 2 to 1 margin.
A majority of Democratic statements (54%) were rated as mostly or entirely true, compared to only 18% of Republican statements. Conversely, a majority of Republican statements (52%) were rated as mostly or entirely false, compared to only 24% of Democratic statements.
Despite controversies over Obama administration statements regarding Benghazi, the IRS and the Associated Press, Republicans have continued to fare worse than Democrats, with 60% of their claims rated as false so far this month (May 1 – May 22), compared to 29% of Democratic statements – a 2 to 1 margin. 
This study’s findings are similar to those of a previous CMPA study, which found that PolitiFact gave more negative ratings to the Romney campaign than the Obama campaign during the 2012 presidential election campaign. </blockquote>
“Through the years, I have continued to follow their ratings, and a lot of the same people are still there — and their ratings are a joke,” Riedl said. “They make huge elementary factual mistakes in their fact checks. It’s all motivated reasoning.”
“When you read their fact checks, it is painfully obvious that they often decided on the rating first and backward reasoned their way through intellectual logical backflips, trying to come up with any way to justify the rating,” he continued. “They’re a joke.”
The title of this article has been revised for clarity. The economist was a source for Politifact, not a fact-checker.

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CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale made it clear on Monday that he wasn&#8217;t buying President Joe Biden&#8217;s claim that he had reduced the deficit.
Amid record-setting inflation and still-rising gas prices, President Biden insisted last Wednesday that he had <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/04/biden-touts-1point5-trillion-budget-deficit-reduction-but-hes-not-telling-the-whole-story.html">decreased the federal deficit</a>. &#8220;Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit,&#8221; he said.
Dale joined CNN &#8220;New Day&#8221; on Monday morning, and he proceeded to pick apart the president&#8217;s claim.
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It must be a blue moon b/c CNN’s fact-checker <a href="https://twitter.com/ddale8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ddale8</a> is calling out Biden for lying about historic deficit reductions <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoreOfThisPlease?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoreOfThisPlease</a> <a href="https://t.co/GaSU5zb9WB">pic.twitter.com/GaSU5zb9WB</a>
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Dale began by noting that the deficit had fallen in the first year of Biden&#8217;s presidency — but he disputed the claim that it had fallen because of anything the president had done.
&#8220;There is no doubt that the deficit has fallen under President Biden so far,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was about $3.1 trillion under President Trump in fiscal 2020, it was about $360 billion lower than that, so about $2.8 trillion, in fiscal 2021 — mostly under President Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;Experts I spoke to still scoffed at the idea that President Biden is personally responsible for having reduced the deficit. In fact, one advocate of deficit reduction, Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, told me that this claim is almost bizarro world, a reversal of reality,&#8221; Dale continued.
Dale went on to note that the deficit was expected to fall by more than $360 billion — and that the Congressional Budget Office had predicted it would fall by more than $870 billion &#8220;if President Biden did not implement new policy.&#8221;
Dale&#8217;s conclusion was that the shortfall between the expected deficit reduction and the actual reduction was a direct result of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-dem-controlled-house-approves-1-9-trillion-stimulus-biden-plans-to-sign-friday/">policies</a> that were <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/pelosi-did-not-have-the-democratic-votes-sinema-credits-house-republicans-with-passage-of-infrastructure-bill/">implemented</a> by the Biden administration — such as the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, among other things.
&#8220;Whatever you think of all those policies, they all cost money,&#8221; Dale said. &#8220;So there ended up being less deficit reduction than expected.&#8221;
Dale noted that President Biden liked to draw from Moody&#8217;s Analytics to support his claims, adding that Dan White, senior director at Moody&#8217;s, had told him, &#8220;The actions of this administration and Congress have undoubtedly resulted in higher deficits, not smaller ones. It is encouraging that the administration has proposed some initiatives to bring down the deficit, but so far none of those initiatives have been seriously considered.&#8221;

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‘Reversal Of Reality’: CNN Fact-Checker Isn’t Buying Biden’s Claim That He Reduced The Deficit

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reportedly owns more farmland in the U.S. than any other individual, according to Left-wing fact-checking site Snopes.
Snopes last week <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-own-farmland/">rated</a> a claim that Gates owns &#8220;the majority of U.S. farmland&#8221; as &#8220;false,&#8221; but admitted that the tech billionaire &#8220;does own a lot of farmland.&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, he <a href="https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly owns more farmland</a> than any other individual in America,&#8221; the fact-check said. &#8220;According to 2021 article from the Land Report, a magazine about land ownership, Gates owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland.&#8221;
&#8220;While this is certainly a lot of acreage, it represents less than 1% of all the farmland in the United States,&#8221; the report emphasized.
&#8220;According to a <a href="https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2022/04/fnlo0222.pdf">2021 report from the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Agriculture Statistics Service</a>, there are 895,300,000 acres of farmland in the United States. Gates’ 242,000 acres amounts to about 0.03% of the total,&#8221; Snopes added.
The Land Report <a href="https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/">article</a> linked by Snopes emphasizes Gates&#8217; landholdings by naming his &#8220;alter ego&#8221; &#8220;Farmer Bill, the guy who owns more farmland than anyone else in America.&#8221;
&#8220;The Gateses’ largest single block of dirt was acquired in 2017: a group of farmland assets owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board,&#8221; the report said.
&#8220;Based in Toronto, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board began assembling an agricultural portfolio in 2013, when it acquired AgCoA, aka, Agricultural Company of America,&#8221; Land Report explained. &#8220;This private US farmland REIT was a joint venture between Duquesne Capital Management and Goldman Sachs that launched in 2007. Over the next five years, AgCoA acquired more than 100,000 acres in nine states. By the time it was sold to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in 2013, AgCoA ranked as one of the leading institutional owners of row crop farmland in the US.&#8221;
&#8220;Yet farmland assets aren’t the sole component of the Gateses’ landholdings,&#8221; the report detailed. &#8220;In 2017, Cascade Investment bought a &#8216;significant stake&#8217; in 24,800 acres of transitional land on the western edge of Phoenix, the most populous city in Arizona and the 10th largest metropolitan area in the country. &#8230; Cascade Investment doubled down on Phoenix transitional land two years later when it made a second major investment by acquiring more than 2,800 acres known as Spurlock Ranch in Buckeye for $25 million.&#8221;
Gates has recently become a prominent fixture in the media, mostly featured for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-too-late-to-vaccinate-70-of-the-worlds-population-for-covid-19-by-who-target-date">opinions</a> on pandemic-related activity, but also for his recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-admits-he-caused-pain-to-wife-melinda-when-asked-if-he-cheated-on-her">divorce</a> from ex-wife Melinda Gates and his apparent friendship with late convicted sex offender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melinda-gates-bills-work-with-abhorrent-jeffrey-epstein-played-role-in-divorce">Jeffrey Epstein</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-calls-out-bill-gates-in-uncovered-text-messages-posts-side-by-side-photo-mocking-gates">Elon Musk Calls Out Bill Gates In Uncovered Text Messages, Posts Side-By-Side Photo Mocking Gates</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-wife-melinda-breaks-silence-on-bill-gates-affair-in-tell-all-interview">Ex-Wife Melinda Breaks Silence On Bill Gates’ Affair In Tell-All Interview</a>
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TikTok, the widely popular video-sharing social media platform with disturbing links to Beijing-based corporation ByteDance, has announced it will soon enforce new “<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/community-guidelines-2022?lang=en">Community Guidelines</a>” which will label any mistrust of governments, elections, or scientific bodies as “misinformation.”
TikTok announced that the new guidelines will be updated on March 7, 2022, to “help keep TikTok welcoming and entertaining for creators and viewers alike.”
Under the guidelines’ “Integrity and authenticity” section, TikTok announced, “We believe that trust forms the foundation of our community. We do not allow activities that may undermine the integrity of our platform or the authenticity of our users. We remove content or accounts that involve spam or fake engagement, impersonation, or misleading information that causes significant harm.”
Under a “Harmful misinformation,” TikTok’s guidelines continue.
<blockquote>Misinformation is defined as content that is inaccurate or false. We will remove misinformation that causes significant harm to individuals, our community, or the larger public regardless of intent. Significant harm includes serious physical injury, illness, or death; severe psychological trauma; large-scale property damage, and the undermining of public trust in civic institutions and processes such as governments, elections, and scientific bodies. This does not include simply inaccurate information, myths, or commercial or reputational harm.</blockquote>
TikTok’s current guidelines, in place until March 7, make no mention of governments or scientific institutions. However, it does instruct users not to post “Content that misleads community members about elections or other civic processes.”
This is not the first controversial news regarding TikTok’s usage guidance. Last year, TikTok released their new privacy policy informing users that the app may collect new forms of biometric data, such as “faceprints and voiceprints,” but the company was reportedly “unable to explain what types of data these terms referred to, or why the app might need to access this information in the first place.”
“A change to <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en#privacy-us">TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy</a> on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app ‘may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information’ from its users’ content,” reported <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-permission-to-collect-biometric-data-on-u-s-users-including-faceprints-and-voiceprints/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANAjB_afsssFR4APN9O4Vawrfs22EWTL2kdWa1YmoVTO_Ksab2ulVKARysujLdD_8L4sk8Svz-ioJT6YywnotB9WEKO6xhBYsM-OQ7hCU_Uv7QXQkzEH85IiUFkdJJH0-01OUwyYMYFoY9bAMRb9VneRf_mOVzKpf1BCLbWq6BUk">TechCrunch</a> at the time. “This includes things like ‘faceprints and voiceprints,’ the policy explained.”
TechCrunch then explained that after being reached for comment on the forms of data that may be collected, “TikTok could not confirm what product developments necessitated the addition of biometric data to its list of disclosures about the information it automatically collects from users, but said it would ask for consent in the case such data collection practices began.”
As TechCrunch noted, issues such as consent and methods of storage become notably important because “only a handful of U.S. states have biometric privacy laws, including Illinois, Washington, California, Texas and New York.”
“If TikTok only requested consent, ‘where required by law,’ it could mean users in other states would not have to be informed about the data collection,” added TechCrunch.
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The fastest way to assure a news article avoids getting scrutinized by fact-checking organizations is for it to go after The Daily Wire or its founder, Ben Shapiro.
The Washington Post proved that truth on Thursday, when it falsely described Shapiro as a “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/24/these-vaccine-skeptics-are-outperforming-news-outlets-facebook-twitter-study-finds/">vaccine skeptic</a>” and branded The Daily Wire one of the internet’s most “prominent sources of anti-vaccine information.” The newspaper cited a <a href="https://www.gmfus.org/news/daily-wire-childrens-health-defense-capitalize-vaccine-hesitant-messaging-boost-social-media">report</a> from the German Marshall Fund, which found that The Daily Wire’s social media posts “about vaccine mandates in particular drew significantly more engagement than their typical” posts.
The article did not specify any particular story on The Daily Wire as evidence of “anti-vaccine information” — although it quoted “an Obama administration alum” who accused this website of making “false or misleading claims.” It apparently targeted Daily Wire articles quoting those opposed to COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Shapiro has said he has taken the vaccine, but The Daily Wire led a successful lawsuit against a Biden administration proposal that would have compelled businesses that employ 100 or more people to require them to get vaccinated or face the possibility of being fired.
The self-appointed media fact-checkers have regularly taken a tendentious approach to Daily Wire material, while turning a blind eye to open fabrications from the legacy media.
These statements tend to cluster around successful undertakings by this website and its principals. For instance in 2019, on the day after Ben Shapiro’s book “The Right Side of History” reached number one on the New York Times’ bestseller list, The Economist ran an article <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-shapiros-book-hits-1-ny-times-list-economist-daily-wire">calling</a> Shapiro a “pop idol of the alt-right.” Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, has frequently criticized the “<a href="https://university.acton.org/course/alt-right-christian-perspective">Alt-Right</a>” — a term coined and popularized by <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/11/4/20947833/richard-spencer-white-nationalism-audio-milo-alt-right">raging anti-Semite</a> Richard Spencer. Rather than correct the matter, the Boston Globe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-globe-issues-correction-after-smearing-ben-shapiros-daily-wire-as-alt-right-outpost-backlash">called</a> The Daily Wire an “Alt-Right outpost” a few months later.
The attacks resumed last July, when NPR attacked The Daily Wire (at your expense) without citing any false statement in our reporting. The taxpayer-funded news outlet instead <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/19/1013793067/outrage-as-a-business-model-how-ben-shapiro-is-using-facebook-to-build-an-empire">quoted</a> Jaime Settle of the College of William &amp; Mary saying that The Daily Wire’s stories “tend to not provide very much context for the information that they are providing. If you&#8217;ve stripped enough context away, any piece of truth can become a piece of misinformation.&#8221; In other words, The Daily Wire’s coverage is different; it comes without left-wing editorializing and Woke “context” posing as reporting.
As a result, The Daily Wire has been labeled as a source of misinformation even though we got the facts right. For instance:
Snopes denounced a Daily Wire article titled “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-aoc-was-not-inside-capitol-building-during-breach-on-jan-6">Report: AOC Was Not Inside Capitol Building During Breach</a>” on January 6 as “<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aoc-capitol-attack/">Mostly False</a>.” The reason? While “Ocasio-Cortez wasn&#8217;t in the main Capitol building where the House and Senate Chambers are located,” nonetheless “Ocasio-Cortez never claimed to be in the main Capitol building.”
Then again, The Daily Wire’s story never claimed Ocasio-Cortez claimed to be in the main Capitol building. By Snopes’ logic, its “Mostly False” rating is mostly false.
“This is a weird fact-check from Snopes,” <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1357299269519163395">wrote</a> Ben Shapiro last February. “I mean, they say that ‘what&#8217;s true’ is EXACTLY what the DW tweet says. Then they call the DW tweet ‘misleading.’ Almost as though they&#8217;re just a Left-wing spin outfit.”
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This is a weird fact-check from Snopes. I mean, they say that &quot;what&#39;s true&quot; is EXACTLY what the DW tweet says. Then they call the DW tweet &quot;misleading.&quot; Almost as though they&#39;re just a Left-wing spin outfit. <a href="https://t.co/IvkD8wiguz">pic.twitter.com/IvkD8wiguz</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1357299269519163395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Snopes made its political calculations clear. It lumped The Daily Wire in with an alleged “right-wing disinformation machine” that engaged in “a circus of cyberbullying.”
A few days later, Snopes rated a Daily Wire story about the Loudoun County (Virginia) Public Schools decision to cancel Dr. Seuss as “Mostly False” because “Dr. Seuss&#8217; books have not been banned by the school system or limited in any way; they remain available to the students in libraries and classrooms.” Once again, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oh-the-places-the-woke-will-go-dr-seuss-canceled-for-racial-undertones">The Daily Wire’s story</a> did not say the school district had pulled the books from its libraries; it accurately reported that the school system would not recognize the beloved children’s author during “Read Across America Day.”
At the same time, media fact-checkers let legacy media outlets spin and mislead with impunity. For example, CNN medical expert and former president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen, claimed that she had changed her position on mask mandates, because “the science has changed.” 
<blockquote>We know that vaccines protect very well against Omicron, which is the dominant variant. Everyone five and older have [sic] widespread access to vaccines. And we also know about one-way masking — the idea that, even if other people around you aren’t wearing masks, if you wear a high-quality mask, that also protects you, the wearer, too.</blockquote>
Yet the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fact-check-did-the-science-really-change-on-mask-mandates">science had not changed</a> on any of those issues since Wen advised the Biden administration to implement COVID-19 vaccination passports.
Sometimes it is the fact-checkers themselves who spin misinformation. Last May, The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/from-impossible-to-credible-how-the-legacy-media-is-desperately-spinning-their-wuhan-lab-flip-flop">claimed</a> that “the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible.” But the “new” information he cited had been known for months.
Curiously, the most recent attacks against The Daily Wire mention — or coincide with — The Daily Wire’s successes. NPR noted that in 2021, “The Daily Wire, received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin.” The Washington Post also noted this website’s stories “drew more interactions — likes, comments and shares — than the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and NPR combined.” The NPR story came near the time this website released its “Morning Wire” podcast, while The Washington Post story comes shortly after the highly successful debut of The Daily Wire’s first entertainment offering, “Shut In.”
Whatever the reason for the prevalence of exacting or erroneous fact-checks against The Daily Wire, facts have nothing to do with it.

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