{"id":1614822,"date":"2022-08-18T13:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1614822"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:32:08","slug":"fact-checkers-try-to-spin-irs-hiring-agents-willing-to-use-deadly-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-try-to-spin-irs-hiring-agents-willing-to-use-deadly-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checkers Try to Spin IRS Hiring Agents Willing to Use Deadly Force"},"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%2Ffact-checkers-try-to-spin-irs-hiring-agents-willing-to-use-deadly-force%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=1614822&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><strong>Social media giant Facebook has censored an accurate claim that the IRS is seeking to \u201carm agents to use deadly force\u201d after a fact checker flagged it as \u201cfalse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An IRS job posting was uncovered earlier this month which announced the agency was seeking to hire new agents who are ready to kill.<\/p>\n<p>One of the \u201cmajor duties\u201d listed in the ad was to be able to \u201ccarry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n<p>But the ad stoked controversy after it went viral, prompting the IRS to quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/irs-deletes-job-posting-seeking-applicants-willing-to-use-deadly-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">delete <\/a>the job posting.<\/p>\n<p>Later, a 2021 IRS annual report was also uncovered, which showed heavily armed agents simulating an assault on a suburban home, which was part of their \u201ctraining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Heritage Foundation and Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) posted the information on Facebook, the social media giant deployed one of their \u2018fact checkers,\u2019 Lead Stories, which slapped a warning label saying the post constituted \u201cpartly false information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only do fact checkers add labels to posts deemed \u201cfalse,\u201d but they also bury content in Facebook\u2019s algorithm, so large numbers no longer see it of people.<\/p>\n<p>The headline of the article by Lead Stories read, \u2018Fact Check: IRS Is NOT Trying To Arm All Its Agents\u2019<\/p>\n<p>However, as Christina Maas <a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/facebook-censors-claims-irs-posted-job-requiring-deadly-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>, \u201cThe Heritage Foundation never said the IRS was arming all of its agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn its article, Lead Stories singles out pro-liberty youth organization Young Americans for Liberty (YAL),\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>The youth group posted a screenshot of the original job posting and wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IRS is hiring! The government wants its IRS agents armed and its citizens disarmed. We\u2019ll let everyone just marinate on that for a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLead Stories tried to make it look like YAL said the IRS is arming all of its employees. \u201cIs the IRS trying to arm all its employees?\u201d asked Lead Stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, that\u2019s not true: A job posting from the IRS Criminal Investigation unit, which carries firearms, does refer to carrying firearms,\u201d the Fact Checker added.<\/p>\n<p>Fact Checkers use various tactics like selecting a piece of language that was used, or not used, which may slightly exaggerate the claim, then declare that the entire story is \u201cfalse information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To put things in more perspective, Facebook fact checkers previously declared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/cnn-hunter-biden-story-a-real-problem-for-joe-biden-in-2024\/\">Hunter Biden<\/a> laptop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a> \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, USA Today, used as a \u2018fact checker\u2019 by social media platforms, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/16\/business\/media\/usa-today-fabricated-sources.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced to delete<\/a> 23 articles after an investigation found one of its reporters had fabricated sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant Facebook has censored an accurate claim that the IRS is seeking to \u201carm agents to use deadly force\u201d after a fact checker flagged it as \u201cfalse.\u201d An<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1614909,"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-1614822","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\/1614822","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}