{"id":1015040,"date":"2021-11-15T13:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015040"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:13:36","slug":"facebook-fact-checkers-add-context-to-biden-clip-that-requires-no-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-fact-checkers-add-context-to-biden-clip-that-requires-no-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook &#039;Fact Checkers&#039; Add &#039;Context&#039; to Biden Clip That Requires No Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-fact-checkers-add-context-to-biden-clip-that-requires-no-context%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015040&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Facebook \u201cfact checkers\u201d including USA Today, Reuters, and Lead Stories, are \u201cfact checking\u201d a video clip on Instagram of Joe Biden caressing his grandson a a funeral, alleging that the clip is \u201cmissing context\u201d even when no description has been added. The fact checkers are adding warning labels to the post across Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Fake News Network, a popular Instagram meme page with 500,000 followers, posted the clip yesterday with the caption \u201ccornpop is at it again,\u201d only to be immediately \u201cfact checked.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CWQ0f_LjIDw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.25925925925926\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The warning label added by the Facebook fact-checkers states:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same information was reviewed in another post by fact-checkers. There may be small differences.&nbsp;Independent fact-checkers say information in this post is missing context and could mislead people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17014526\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_98804163671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17014526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_98804163671.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Joe Biden eats ice cream during a visit to Little Man Ice Cream, in Denver, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo\/Brennan Linsley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Joe Biden eats ice cream during a visit to Little Man Ice Cream, in Denver, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo\/Brennan Linsley)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following the links in the warning message takes viewers of the clip to pages informing them that Biden was \u201cconsoling\u201d his grandson at Beau Biden\u2019s funeral, even though the Instagram account did not claim otherwise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cindependent fact-checkers\u201d include Lead Stories, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/12\/09\/facebook-fact-checker-fact-checks-critique-of-itself\/\">once \u201cfact checked\u201d a critique of itself on Facebook<\/a>, and mainstream news outlets <em>USA Today<\/em> and Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><em>USA Today<\/em>, a competitor of Breitbart News, once \u201cfact checked\u201d one of Breitbart\u2019s stories because of its use of the term \u201camnesty,\u201d which an intern at the newspaper disagreed with.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/12\/09\/facebook-fact-checker-fact-checks-critique-of-itself\/\">Breitbart News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15.796368352789\">\n<p>Why?&nbsp;<em>USA Today<\/em>&nbsp;did not say, but it had&nbsp;published the following article on May 14, written by an intern serving on its Facebook fact-checking team: \u201c<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2020\/05\/22\/fact-check-house-bill-doesnt-give-amnesty-workers-illegally-u-s\/5238214002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Fact check: House bill does not grant amnesty to immigrants illegally in U.S.<\/a>\u201d In its article,&nbsp;<em>USA Today&nbsp;<\/em>contends that the term \u201camnesty\u201d can only be used if it aligns with its intern\u2019s subjective and restrictive interpretation of the&nbsp;<em>Black\u2019s Law Dictionary<\/em>&nbsp;definition of the term; basically, that the word \u201camnesty\u201d can only be used to refer to a permanent pardon for an offense.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the fact that the phrase \u201camnesty\u201d has been used to apply to temporary relief from the consequences of illegal immigration by the&nbsp;<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DWtGV#selection-1713.0-1713.48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">New York Times<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/09\/obamas-long-immigration-betrayal\/379839\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">The Atlantic<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052748703657604575005233703955158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">the&nbsp;<\/a><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052748703657604575005233703955158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=1025926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFact checking\u201d a post on Facebook typically leads to the post\u2019s reach on the platform being suppressed, giving outlets like <em>USA Today<\/em> the ability to suppress their competition.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has reached out to Instagram for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook \u201cfact checkers\u201d including USA Today, Reuters, and Lead Stories, are \u201cfact checking\u201d a video clip on Instagram of Joe Biden caressing his grandson a a funeral, alleging that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}