{"id":2387563,"date":"2025-01-07T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/11-times-facebook-censored-the-federalist-that-we-know-of\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:22:34","slug":"11-times-facebook-censored-the-federalist-that-we-know-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/11-times-facebook-censored-the-federalist-that-we-know-of\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Times Facebook Censored The Federalist (That We Know Of)"},"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\">20<\/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%2F11-times-facebook-censored-the-federalist-that-we-know-of%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=2387563&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>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a important\u2063 shift \u200bin Facebook&#8217;s approach to fact-checking,moving away from its current\u200b partisan system to a community notes model similar to those introduced by Elon Musk at X. Zuckerberg claims\u2062 that this change aims to enhance \u2064free expression,simplify policies,and reduce errors. Though,critics argue that Meta cannot simply erase its controversial past regarding political censorship. The company acknowledges it still \u2064reserves the right to\u200d limit \u2063the distribution of content deemed false, which raises concerns about\u2062 continuing censorship practices.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses instances of \u200dalleged censorship by Facebook, notably against conservative media outlets like The Federalist. It highlights several cases where Facebook \u200dlabeled articles as \u200d&#8221;false&#8221; or \u200d&#8221;misleading,&#8221; ofen\u2062 relying on questionable third-party fact-checkers. \u2062Critics assert that such actions have resulted in \u2064reputational and financial damage to\u2064 media organizations,and they argue \u200bthat Zuckerberg&#8217;s new policy does not adequately \u200baddress the harm caused by prior censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Various examples are provided, illustrating how posts were flagged for debunked claims about topics ranging from COVID-19 to partisan political events.The overarching message is that while changes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-ottawa-police-chief-say-that-every-single-canadian-who-supported-truckers-will-be-hunted-down-and-ruined\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did The Ottawa Police Chief Say That \u2018Every Single Canadian Who Supported Truckers Will Be Hunted Down And Ruined\u2019?\">fact-checking system<\/a> may \u200cbe presented \u200bpositively, the legacy\u200b of censorship and compliance with government pressures still looms large \u2064over Meta and its\u200c platforms.  <\/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>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DEhf2uTJUs0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> on Tuesday that Facebook plans to do away with its extensive and partisan fact-checking program in favor of a community notes system modeled after Elon Musk&rsquo;s X reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg claims the change will spur the Big Tech giant to &ldquo;focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms,&rdquo; prompting some to hail the decision as a victory for free speech.<\/p>\n<p>But Meta doesn&rsquo;t just get to erase its years of political censorship with a carefully scripted apology video. Zuckerberg blames &ldquo;governments and legacy media&rdquo; for encouraging censorship, but his tech giant willingly complied, throttling dissent at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/04\/latest-facebook-files-confirm-biden-admin-censors-think-youre-too-stupid-to-govern-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">behest of the federal government<\/a>. Meta still reserves the right to deal strikes and &ldquo;reduce the distribution of certain hoax content.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When Pages do share something that&rsquo;s been marked False by a fact-checker, we notify them that their shared post will be demoted, regardless of whether they are the original publisher of that content,&rdquo; Meta states on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/help\/297022994952764?id=673052479947730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its policy enforcement blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only when pages &ldquo;stop sharing misinformation&rdquo; does Meta &ldquo;restore their distribution and ability to monetize and advertise.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has used punitive &ldquo;fact-checks&rdquo; to inflict reputational and financial harm on outlets like The Federalist for publishing counter-narrative information. The Federalist saw its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-bans-gop-account-allows-inflammatory-dnc-ads\/\" title=\"Facebook bans GOP account, allows inflammatory DNC ads\">fake fact-check<\/a> from Facebook in 2020, after a year of facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/facebook-coronavirus-infection-parties-misinformation-policy_n_5e7faf6cc5b6cb9dc1a16f36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censorship<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/25\/us\/chickenpox-parties-federalist-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other<\/a> tech platforms over our reporting on Covid-19 mandates and government lockdowns. Shortly after the 2020 election and events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, we noticed an increase in censorship attacks on our publication, including a large dip in Facebook traffic and interactions.<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to quantify the damage censorship does to a media organization, whose existence is predicated upon reaching an audience. Publishing true reporting in the era of Facebook censorship has come with great cost. Every &ldquo;missing context&rdquo; label comes with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/18\/facebook-censors-federalist-report-on-springfield-goose-hunting-with-chinese-funded-fact-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threat<\/a>: &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;<\/p>\n<p>Until Zuckerberg makes up for every single time Facebook used its fake fact-checking apparatus to downrank our reporting for partisan reasons, he&rsquo;s still one of the bad guys.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Counter-Fact-Check on Georgia Ballot Counting<\/h2>\n<p>Weeks after the 2020 presidential election &mdash; in which Mark Zuckerberg meddled to the tune of $419 million, by the way &mdash; Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/07\/no-the-georgia-vote-counting-video-was-not-debunked-not-even-close\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> a story challenging a &ldquo;fact-check&rdquo; about Georgia ballot counting by an outfit called &ldquo;Lead Stories.&rdquo; Lead Stories claimed to have debunked the testimony of Republicans alarmed by suspicious events at a Fulton County ballot-counting site. Hemingway contended that the surveillance video in question didn&rsquo;t debunk their concerns at all.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as Hemingway&rsquo;s story was published on Facebook, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/07\/china-funded-facebook-fact-checker-is-now-censoring-criticism-of-its-fake-fact-checks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marked<\/a> with a text bubble declaring it to be &ldquo;Partly False Information.&rdquo; The story had been &ldquo;checked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-medias-embarrassing-incuriosity-about-wuhan\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: The Media\u2019s Embarrassing Incuriosity About Wuhan\">independent fact-checkers<\/a>,&rdquo; the label said. Who were the &ldquo;independent fact-checkers&rdquo;? Lead Stories, of course!<\/p>\n<h2>2. Fact-Checking Facts About Masks <\/h2>\n<p>Facebook flagged a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/18\/major-study-finds-masks-dont-reduce-covid-19-infection-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federalist article<\/a> about the ineffectiveness of masks against Covid after one of its sketchy third-party &ldquo;fact-checkers&rdquo; deemed it &ldquo;inaccurate&rdquo; and &ldquo;misleading.&rdquo; Science Feedback claimed in an email to the Federalist that the article misrepresented the study&rsquo;s findings even though &ldquo;Danish researchers found that there was no statistically significant difference between wearing a mask or not in preventing people from contracting COVID-19.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>3. Running Interference for Green Energy<\/h2>\n<p>In February 2021, mere weeks after a Texas power grid failure left millions freezing and hundreds dead, Facebook slapped <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/23\/facebook-targets-the-federalist-with-myopic-fact-check-on-green-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two separate &ldquo;fact checks&rdquo;<\/a> on a Federalist story that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/18\/texass-blackouts-are-the-result-of-unreliable-green-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly linked<\/a> the Lone Star State&rsquo;s electricity struggles to green energy initiatives. The tag used articles penned by Politifact and the <a href=\"https:\/\/leadstories.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese-funded Lead Stories<\/a> to claim that the Federalist article was &ldquo;missing context&rdquo; and &ldquo;could mislead people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After a word salad blaming natural gas plants for the widespread blackouts, Politifact acknowledged that the wind farms Federalist author Jason Isaac criticized in his article &ldquo;ran at about half of what was expected,&rdquo; which did contribute to the electricity shortage. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/19\/left-wing-facebook-fact-checker-censors-the-federalist-for-highlighting-texas-power-failures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lead Stories link<\/a> plastered on The Federalist&rsquo;s post did not even address Isaac&rsquo;s argument directly. Instead, it scrutinized an unrelated Facebook&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10215924094608922&amp;set=a.4746151905413&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>&nbsp;from a user who noted the green energy sector&rsquo;s failures during the Texas power crisis.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Fact-Checking an Opinion About the Chauvin Murder Verdict<\/h2>\n<p>When The Federalist&rsquo;s Joy Pullmann penned a piece arguing Americans could not trust the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2021\/04\/21\/theres-no-way-americans-can-trust-the-jurys-chauvin-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">verdict<\/a> in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin&rsquo;s murder trial because of the partisan media storm surrounding George Floyd&rsquo;s death, Facebook claimed her article was &ldquo;missing context.&rdquo; Accompanying a giant warning to anyone who tried to click on the link redirecting him to The Federalist website was a USA Today article asserting that that opinion &ldquo;ignores the steps taken to ensure the trial was indeed fair.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As Pullmann noted, USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/26\/facebook-throttles-federalist-article-arguing-chauvin-verdict-was-tainted-by-politics-after-juror-confirms-thats-true\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;uncovered not one single factual error&rdquo;<\/a> in her story. In fact, the USA Today &ldquo;fact-check&rdquo; was aimed at another post &ldquo;expressing a similar opinion.&rdquo; Yet it was used by Facebook to justify reducing the reach of Pullmann and other Federalist authors&rsquo; writing.<\/p>\n<h2>5. The Federalist Put in Facebook Jail for Repeating Something &lsquo;60 Minutes&rsquo; Was Allowed to Say<\/h2>\n<p>Facebook throttled a Federalist story headlined <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2021\/05\/03\/pentagon-develops-microchip-detecting-covid-19-by-tracking-your-blood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Pentagon Develops Microchip Detecting COVID-19 By Tracking Your Blood&rdquo;<\/a> under the guise that it was &ldquo;missing context.&rdquo; One of Big Tech&rsquo;s shady third-party &ldquo;fact-checkers,&rdquo; Science Feedback, argued in an article overshadowing The Federalist post that &ldquo;calling the hydrogel sensor a microchip is inaccurate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;60 Minutes&rdquo; report The Federalist highlighted and quoted in its article, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/05\/the-federalist-and-60-minutes-reported-the-same-story-guess-who-facebook-fact-checked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remained untouched by Facebook&rsquo;s censorship claws. <\/a><\/p>\n<h2>6. Adding &lsquo;Context&rsquo; to Fauci&rsquo;s Masking Flip-Flop<\/h2>\n<p>In June 2021, emails revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci had admitted, &ldquo;The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out [a] virus&rdquo; at the outbreak of the Covid-19 response, before he oversaw a federal push for healthy Americans to wear paper masks over their faces when interacting with others. The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/02\/emails-show-fauci-knew-masks-werent-very-effective-before-pushing-universal-masking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> on these emails under the headline &ldquo;Emails Show Fauci Knew Masks Weren&rsquo;t Very Effective Before Pushing Universal Masking.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/04\/facebook-instagram-using-fake-fact-checks-to-curb-reporting-on-fauci-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flagged<\/a> the article and linked a &ldquo;fact-check&rdquo; by a foreign news group, which added the &ldquo;context&rdquo; that &ldquo;Fauci&rsquo;s email reflected the consensus at the time among US health experts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>7. Covering for Buttigieg&rsquo;s Bike Blunder<\/h2>\n<p>In April 2021, Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was filmed mounting a bike that appeared to have just been unloaded from a bike rack attached to a Secret Service SUV, which then followed behind him. While legacy media praised Buttigieg for his display of carbon consciousness, The Federalist&rsquo;s Madeline Osburn poked fun at the stunt under the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2021\/04\/02\/clown-show-pete-buttigieg-bikes-to-work-after-suvs-drive-him-part-of-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> &ldquo;Clown Show: Pete Buttigieg &lsquo;Bikes&rsquo; To Work After SUVs Drive Him Part Of The Way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook flagged a video version of the story posted on The Federalist&rsquo;s page as &ldquo;False Information.&rdquo; In a linked &ldquo;fact-check,&rdquo; Lead Stories <a href=\"https:\/\/leadstories.com\/hoax-alert\/2021\/04\/fact-check-pete-buttigieg-did-not-stage-a-short-bike-ride-for-a-photo-op.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> without evidence that &ldquo;Pete Buttigieg Did NOT Stage A Short Bike Ride For a Photo Op.&rdquo; Lead Stories&rsquo; evidence for <em>that<\/em> claim was that Buttigieg himself had shared the video and &ldquo;it seems unlikely that he would have chosen to share it&rdquo; if it was staged. The fact-checking outfit also cited a Transportation Department representative who claimed Buttigieg had indeed &ldquo;biked both to and from a Cabinet meeting at the White House.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As Osburn <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/06\/facebook-fact-checking-site-claims-without-evidence-that-pete-buttigieg-rode-his-bike-all-the-way-to-work-like-a-big-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> at the time, &ldquo;Of course he biked to and from the cabinet meeting. No stories dispute this fact, because the&nbsp;<em>whole point<\/em>&nbsp;of Buttigieg&rsquo;s stunt was to be seen riding to and from the White House on his bike.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>8. Censoring Criticism of Censorship<\/h2>\n<p>In December 2021, The Federalist published a story by mRNA pioneer Dr. Robert Malone, Yale epidemiology professor Dr. Harvey Risch, and immunology professor Dr. Byram Bridle <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/14\/forcing-people-into-covid-vaccines-ignores-important-scientific-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">titled<\/a> &ldquo;Forcing People Into COVID Vaccines Ignores Important Scientific Information.&rdquo; In their first sentence, the three <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">experts condemned tech censors&#038;rsquo<\/a>; &ldquo;attacks on free speech and science.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook deemed the story to be &ldquo;missing context&rdquo; and marked it with a label and a link to a Lead Stories &ldquo;fact-check&rdquo; of a completely different story. Lead Stories didn&rsquo;t &ldquo;actually address The Federalist article or any of the claims made in it,&rdquo; as Jordan Boyd <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/15\/facebook-censors-article-about-dangers-of-covid-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<h2>9. Threatening Restriction Over Election Reporting<\/h2>\n<p>In March 2023, Facebook&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/16\/politifact-tries-to-fact-check-a-federalist-article-on-democrats-dark-money-election-takeover-and-fails-miserably\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affixed<\/a>&nbsp;a &ldquo;fact-check&rdquo; from Politifact to a Federalist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/21\/how-georgia-became-democrats-test-site-for-their-2024-private-takeover-of-election-offices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>&nbsp;titled &ldquo;How Georgia Became Democrats&rsquo; Test Site For Their 2024 Private Takeover Of Election Offices,&rdquo; which detailed the infusion of millions of dollars into Democrat areas in exchange for their participation in the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence. The group was linked to one of the nonprofits through which Mark Zuckerberg himself funneled cash into disproportionately Democrat districts in 2020. Facebook claimed the story was &ldquo;Partly False&rdquo; because Politifact took offense at the word &ldquo;takeover.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pages and websites&nbsp;that repeatedly share false information might be restricted,&rdquo; Facebook warned us.<\/p>\n<h2>10. Flagging Reporting on FBI&rsquo;s &lsquo;Deadly Force&rsquo; Authorization<\/h2>\n<p>In May, The Federalist and other outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/21\/fbi-was-authorized-to-use-deadly-force-against-trump-during-mar-a-lago-raid-court-filings-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> on court documents revealing that FBI agents sent by the Biden Justice Department to raid Donald Trump&rsquo;s Mar-a-Lago home in search of classified documents from his presidency had been authorized to use &ldquo;deadly force&rdquo; if necessary. Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/24\/facebook-censors-media-who-criticize-fbis-deadly-force-raid-against-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affixed<\/a> a notice to the post, claiming that &ldquo;independent fact-checkers reviewed the information and said it was missing context and could mislead people.&rdquo; A &ldquo;fact-check&rdquo; linked by Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.34TH3JN?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0FeqJPeA1O8Cxx5dCs4mrLt6J-arl0bVm6RjaHC-6-puDMM2p2Lmxpa0A_aem_AQmChgVVeSF7df2QA03nvnDL5xnCqnlpxqpFqrdYEQOA0aRw2rdbInj8VP0nQxiNde3M7ahu7m_ZsybaBZG886G3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> such reporting &ldquo;misrepresent[ed] the Justice Department&rsquo;s standard policies.&rdquo; Even though it was true the FBI had authorization to use deadly force against a former president in his home, such authorization was &ldquo;boilerplate language,&rdquo; the fact-checkers said.<\/p>\n<h2>11. Dismissing a Police Report as &lsquo;No Verifying Evidence&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Facebook was censoring Federalist reporting as recently as September, just over a month before the 2024 presidential election. After residents of Springfield, Ohio, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1832773191976014217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voiced<\/a> concerns about Haitian noncitizens on temporary parole in the United States allegedly capturing and eating small animals in public parks, The Federalist <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\">published<\/a> a police report in which a resident had reported Haitians with &ldquo;geese in their hands&rdquo; to a police dispatcher. Although the story was sourced to a police report and audio recording, Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/18\/facebook-censors-federalist-report-on-springfield-goose-hunting-with-chinese-funded-fact-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slapped<\/a> a label on it deeming the reporting &ldquo;false information,&rdquo; and Lead Stories claimed it had &ldquo;No Verifying Evidence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook will replace its fact-checking program with a community notes system to enhance free expression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3601,"featured_media":2387564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/fdrlstfb.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6371,4573,32364,48089],"class_list":["post-2387563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-social-media","tag-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/fdrlstfb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387563","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\/3601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387567,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387563\/revisions\/2387567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}