{"id":2342783,"date":"2024-09-18T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-censors-federalist-report-on-springfield-goose-hunting\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:28:47","slug":"facebook-censors-federalist-report-on-springfield-goose-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-censors-federalist-report-on-springfield-goose-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Censors Federalist Report On Springfield Goose Hunting"},"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\">16<\/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-censors-federalist-report-on-springfield-goose-hunting%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=2342783&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>Facebook labeled a report by The Federalist regarding Haitian migrants allegedly hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio, as\u200d \u201cfalse \u200binformation\u201d after a fact check from a Chinese-funded organization\u200c called Lead Stories. The Federalist&#8217;s article \u2062included\u200c an audio recording of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-police-audio-confirms-haitian-goose-hunting-in-ohio\/\" title=\"Exclusive: Police Audio Confirms Haitian Goose Hunting In Ohio\">local resident \u200dreporting<\/a> four Haitian individuals with geese, raising concerns about their actions. However, Facebook\u2019s warning indicated that \u200drepeated sharing of\u200c false information \u200ccould lead to reduced visibility of posts in users&#8217; feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Lead Stories contested the accuracy \u200bof the report, asserting that while \u2063the audio confirmed a call \u2063was made to\u2064 the \u2062police, it \u200cdid not verify the details described by the caller, \u2063noting a\u200d lack of evidence regarding the geese&#8217;s\u2062 condition or legality. The Ohio \u2064Department of Natural Resources had previously dismissed claims related to these incidents despite acknowledging another report of similar activity \u2062earlier in the year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Facebook labeled The Federalist&rsquo;s reporting related to Haitian migrants hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio as &ldquo;false information&rdquo; Tuesday based on a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michiganders-asked-to-report-their-neighbors-for-election-misinfo\/\" title=\"Michiganders Asked To Report Their Neighbors For Election &#039;Misinfo&#039;\">fact check&#038;rdquo<\/a>; from a Chinese-funded organization.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-censors-media-who-criticize-fbis-deadly-force-raid-against-trump\/\" title=\"Facebook censors media critical of FBI&#039;s Trump raid\">repeatedly share false information<\/a> might have their posts moved lower in News Feed so other people are less likely to see them,&rdquo; read a warning from Facebook slapped onto an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/10\/exclusive-police-audio-report-confirm-haitian-goose-hunting-in-ohio-they-all-had-geese-in-their-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> published last week. The story featured an audio recording of a phone call to police wherein a concerned local reported four Haitian migrants each carrying a goose near downtown Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sitting here, I&rsquo;m riding on the trail, I&rsquo;m going to my orientation for my job today, and I see a group of Haitian people, there was about four of &rsquo;em, they all had geese in their hand,&rdquo; the caller told the public services dispatcher in the audio recording. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m time crunching here, and I saw that, I&rsquo;m like, &lsquo;Yeah this has got to be reported.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The recording of the phone call was embedded in the story and can be listened to below: <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Facebook, however, suppressed the story based on an independent &ldquo;fact check&rdquo; by a group called Lead Stories, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/leadstories.com\/financial-information-funding-sources.html#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded<\/a> by tech elites in Silicon Valley and Beijing. Meta and the Chinese-owned company ByteDance pay Lead Stories to fact check stories on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Police Audio Does NOT Confirm Haitians Hunting Geese In Springfield, Ohio &mdash; No Verifying Evidence,&rdquo; Tuesday&rsquo;s headline <a href=\"https:\/\/leadstories.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called &ldquo;fact check&rdquo; faulted the story for implying &ldquo;the audio recording of a call made to the Clark County sheriff&rsquo;s department non-emergency line on August 26, 2024, confirms that the caller&rsquo;s report was accurate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the audio confirms that a call was made, it does not prove that what was reported truly happened,&rdquo; Lead Stories reported. &ldquo;The caller stated that four Haitian people, two men and two women, were each carrying a goose and got into a gray Toyota Tacoma near the intersection of Warder and Water streets in Springfield, Ohio. The caller did not specify if the geese being carried were alive or dead, domestic or wild.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The article went on to cite a statement from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/politifact-writer-behind-fake-fact-check-of-springfield-geese-hunting-whitewashes-trans-radicalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used<\/a> by corporate outlets to dismiss reports about Haitians hunting geese in Springfield. Despite the agency revealing a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/ohio-department-of-natural-resources-confirms-second-springfield-phone-call-related-to-haitian-goose-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second<\/a> such report made in March, the ODNR said &ldquo;no supporting evidence was found of wildlife being illegally removed from the park in either case.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The statement, however, doesn&rsquo;t mean what the callers reported did not happen. The suspects in both incidents had left the scene by the time law enforcement arrived. Both cases were also reported long before Springfield became a national emblem of communities <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/13\/democrats-immigration-crisis-pushes-ohioans-to-the-breaking-point-whos-protecting-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overwhelmed <\/a>by immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&rsquo;s censorship comes just weeks after company CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/27\/zuckerberg-admits-facebook-helped-feds-on-covid-censorship-election-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledged <\/a>to Congress the tech giant would not engage in the same election interference that Silicon Valley did in 2020. In an August letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg admitted to suppressing select coverage of Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop and the coronavirus pandemic at the behest of government censors.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn&rsquo;t make today,&rdquo; Zuckerberg wrote. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re ready to push back if something like this happens again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook classified The Federalist&#8217;s report about Haitian migrants hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio as &#8220;false information&#8221; on Tuesday, citing a &#8220;fact check&#8221; from an organization funded by Chinese sources. A warning from Facebook attached to an article published last week stated, \u201cPeople who repeatedly share false information might have their posts moved lower in News Feed so other people are less likely to see them.\u201d The article included an audio recording of a phone call made to the police by a concerned local resident who reported seeing four Haitian migrants each carrying a goose near downtown Springfield. In the recording, the caller described their observation while on their way to work and felt it was necessary to report it.<\/p>\n<p>However, Facebook suppressed the story based on an independent fact-check conducted by Lead Stories, which is financed by tech elites from Silicon Valley and Beijing. Meta and ByteDance also pay Lead Stories for fact-checking services on their platforms. The headline of Tuesday\u2019s fact check read: \u201cPolice Audio Does NOT Confirm Haitians Hunting Geese In Springfield, Ohio \u2014 No Verifying Evidence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The fact check criticized the original story for suggesting that the audio confirmed the accuracy of what was reported by the caller. While acknowledging that a call was made, Lead Stories stated that it did not verify whether what was reported actually occurred. The caller mentioned seeing four Haitian individuals\u2014two men and two women\u2014each with a goose getting into a gray Toyota Tacoma but did not clarify if the geese were alive or dead.<\/p>\n<p>The article referenced statements from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), which corporate media outlets have used to dismiss claims about Haitians hunting geese in Springfield. Although ODNR noted another similar report made in March without finding evidence of illegal wildlife removal in either case, this does not necessarily mean that what callers reported didn\u2019t happen; law enforcement arrived after both incidents had already concluded.<\/p>\n<p>This censorship comes shortly after CEO Mark Zuckerberg assured Congress that Facebook would avoid repeating past election interference practices seen during 2020. In an August letter to Congress members, Zuckerberg acknowledged suppressing certain coverage at government request regarding Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and COVID-19 but expressed readiness to resist such actions moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Justice is The Federalist&#8217;s western correspondent and author of Social Justice Redux\u2014a conservative newsletter focused on culture and wellness\u2014and has contributed pieces for various publications including The Washington Examiner and Fox News. He graduated from George Washington University with a degree in political science and minor in journalism; follow him on Twitter @JusticeTristan or contact him via email at Tristan@thefederalist.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2342784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/49714361193_7c96ec3f7c_k-e1726668157769.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6371,4573,6919],"class_list":["post-2342783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/49714361193_7c96ec3f7c_k-e1726668157769.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342783","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}