{"id":1779753,"date":"2022-12-19T07:32:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779753"},"modified":"2022-12-19T07:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:32:53","slug":"david-french-yes-the-dispatch-takes-money-to-help-leftists-keep-the-internet-conservatism-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-french-yes-the-dispatch-takes-money-to-help-leftists-keep-the-internet-conservatism-free\/","title":{"rendered":"David French: Yes, The Dispatch Takes Money To Help Leftists Keep The Internet Conservatism-Free"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fdavid-french-yes-the-dispatch-takes-money-to-help-leftists-keep-the-internet-conservatism-free%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=1779753&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>David French, the \u201cprincipled conservative\u201d who argued drag queen story hours in libraries are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-political-scene\/david-french-sohrab-ahmari-and-the-battle-for-the-future-of-conservatism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cblessings of liberty,\u201d<\/a> publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/newsletter\/frenchpress\/the-twitter-files-show-its-time-to-reimagine-free-speech-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a> last week that he\u2019s personally advised Big Tech platforms on how to suppress the speech of people who disagree with leftists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few years ago I was invited to an off-the-record meeting with senior executives at a major social media company,\u201d reads the Atlantic contributor and Dispatch senior editor\u2019s first sentence. In 2020, The Dispatch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/journalismproject\/fact-checking-expansion-and-investment-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">became<\/a>a paid censor to help Facebook suppress conservative ideas using the pretense of \u201cfactchecking.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As a Facebook censor, The Dispatch has helped <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/15\/big-tech-censorship-partner-the-dispatch-smeared-newsmax-reporter-who-called-out-pfizers-ceo-for-not-being-fully-vaxxed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suppress true information<\/a> in the service of leftist conversation control. This has included keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/16\/nevertrump-website-the-dispatch-colludes-with-big-tech-to-censor-sba-lists-pro-life-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accurate pro-life ads off Facebook<\/a> in a way that protected the candidacy of Joe Biden and restricted nonviolent political speech. Dispatch CEO Steve Hayes also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/05\/facebook-censorship-partner-steve-hayes-defends-facebooks-election-meddling-on-behalf-of-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defended <\/a>Facebook\u2019s 2020 election interference in the form of throttling a true story about Hunter Biden\u2019s corruption that may financially benefit his father.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook launched its third-party fact-checking program in 2016. By 2020, more than <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/journalismproject\/fact-checking-expansion-and-investment-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50 publications including French\u2019s The Dispatch<\/a> agreed to do Big Tech\u2019s dirty censorship work. Throttlers like The Dispatch are tasked by Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/journalismproject\/programs\/third-party-fact-checking\/selecting-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201creduce the spread of misinformation and provide more reliable information to users.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Dispatch claims to be a center-right media organization. It <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dispatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called <\/a>for Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment, a position <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/republican-voters-stick-by-trump-as-some-lawmakers-seek-distance-11610629997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opposed <\/a>by the vast majority of Republican voters.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life advertisements The Dispatch blocked highlighted the abortion-until-birth positions of 2020 Democrats, including Joe Biden. At the time, the NeverTrump website claimed the ads included \u201cpartly false information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden has not expressed support for late-term abortions\u2014which, while not being a medical term, generally refers to abortions performed at 21 weeks or later. And neither candidate has voiced support for abortion \u2018up to the moment of birth,\u2019\u201d the false Dispatch fact-check stated.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after The Federalist published an article amplifying the censorship, The Dispatch claimed that the fact check, which remained up on social media for three days before deletion, was still in \u201cdraft form\u201d and was published in \u201cerror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t stop The Dispatch from continuing to take money to shut up conservatives and conservative causes. For their willingness to participate in Big Tech\u2019s anti-free speech crusade, these suppressors are paid from Facebook\u2019s more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/formedia\/blog\/third-party-fact-checking-industry-investments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$100 million \u201cfact-checking\u201d investment<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Publications like The Dispatch are not ashamed of their partnership with Facebook. In fact, there is clear indication on both <a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/category\/fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Dispatch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/formedia\/mjp\/programs\/third-party-fact-checking\/partner-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook\u2019s websites<\/a> that they are proud to be advancing the goal of silencing anyone they deem problematic together. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, French is not ashamed of his partnership with Big Tech. If his writing indicates anything, French, the man infamous for performative outrage about the moral failures of Republicans like former President Donald Trump, basks in his role as a censor who can shut dissidents up with the click of a mouse.<\/p>\n<p> Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. 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