{"id":1173113,"date":"2021-12-30T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173113"},"modified":"2021-12-30T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:34:22","slug":"leftist-facebook-fact-checker-science-feedback-admits-wrongly-flagging-article-on-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-facebook-fact-checker-science-feedback-admits-wrongly-flagging-article-on-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Facebook &#039;Fact Checker&#039; Science Feedback Admits Wrongly Flagging Article on Mask Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fleftist-facebook-fact-checker-science-feedback-admits-wrongly-flagging-article-on-mask-mandates%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=1173113&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\">Science Feedback, a third-party Facebook \u201cfact checker\u201d known for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/03\/09\/facebook-censors-wall-street-journal-over-fact-checked-coronavirus-op-ed-by-johns-hopkins-surgeon\/\">controversial fact-checks<\/a> of news stories and op-eds that challenge official opinion, has admitted it was wrong to fact-check and censor a&nbsp;<em>Reason&nbsp;<\/em>article. The article stated that the study relied on by the CDC to promote mask mandate in schools is bogus.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook fact-checkers are empowered to suppress content on the platform. Fact-checked posts get less distribution and visibility on the social network, while warning labels alert users that the article contains allegedly unreliable information.<\/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<div id=\"attachment_18503602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/students-in-masks-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18503602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/students-in-masks-ap.jpg\" alt=\"In this Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, file photo, students sit in an Algebra class at Barbara Coleman Senior High School on the first day of school, in Miami Lakes, Fla. Florida school districts can legally require their students to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a judge ruled Friday, Aug, 27, saying Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his authority when he issued an executive order banning such mandates. (AP Photo\/Marta Lavandier, File)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students are required to wear masks in school (AP Photo\/Marta Lavandier, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The article that caught Science Feedback\u2019s ire was published at the libertarian magazine&nbsp;<em>Reason&nbsp;<\/em>by Robby Soave, and was titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/12\/17\/study-masks-in-schools-junk-science-cdc-walensky\/\">The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The article quoted another piece from&nbsp;the <em>Atlantic\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>David Zweig \u2014 an article that was&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>fact-checked by Science Feedback. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2021\/05\/19\/the-new-soros-marlow-media-expose-reveals-immense-secret-power-of-tech-heiress-laurene-powell-jobs\/\">Breitbart News has reported in the past<\/a>,&nbsp;The <em>Atlantic&nbsp;<\/em>has become one of the leading voices of left-wing globalism, owned by billionaire Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs, whom Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow has called \u201cthe new Soros.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/12\/17\/study-masks-in-schools-junk-science-cdc-walensky\/\">Reason<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The significance of that finding should have raised eyebrows, according to&nbsp;<em>The Atlantic<\/em>\u2018s David Zweig. \u201cA number of the experts interviewed for this article said the size of the effect should have caused everyone involved in preparing, publishing, and publicizing the paper to tap the brakes,\u201d he wrote in a new article that explores the study\u2019s significant flaws. \u201cInstead, they hit the gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/12\/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky\/621035\/\">demonstrates<\/a>&nbsp;quite convincingly that the study\u2019s results are suspect:<\/p>\n<p><em>But the Arizona study at the center of the CDC\u2019s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. \u201cYou can\u2019t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study,\u201d Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, told me. His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research, and with whom I spoke for this article. Masks may well help prevent the spread of COVID, some of these experts told me, and there may well be contexts in which they should be required in schools. But the data being touted by the CDC\u2014which showed a dramatic&nbsp;more-than-tripling&nbsp;of risk for unmasked students\u2014ought to be excluded from this debate. The Arizona study\u2019s lead authors stand by their work, and so does the CDC. But the critics were forthright in their harsh assessments. Noah Haber, an interdisciplinary scientist and a co-author of a systematic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.01.21.21250243v5.full-text\">review<\/a>&nbsp;of COVID-19 mitigation policies, called the research \u201cso unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that there were numerous problems with the study. Many of the schools that comprise its data set weren\u2019t even open at the time the study was completed; it counted outbreaks instead of cases; it did not control for vaccination status; it included schools that didn\u2019t fit the criteria. For these and other reasons, Zweig argues that the study ought to be ignored entirely: Masking in schools may or may not be a good idea, but this study doesn\u2019t help answer the question. Any public official\u2014including and especially Walensky\u2014who purports to&nbsp;<em>follow the science&nbsp;<\/em>should toss this one in the trash.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Science Feedback later admitted that their fact check was erroneous, and reversed course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have taken another look at the Reason article and confirm that the rating was applied in error to this article,\u201d the fact-checkers told <em>Reason<\/em>. \u201cThe flag has been removed. We apologize for the mistake.\u201d<\/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>Science Feedback, a third-party Facebook \u201cfact checker\u201d known for its controversial fact-checks of news stories and op-eds that challenge official opinion, has admitted it was wrong to fact-check and censor &#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-1173113","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\/1173113","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=1173113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173113\/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=1173113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}