Thread by @JoelWBerry

Incredible. Two Facebook-funded researchers sent out @TheBabylonBee satire to trick people, but they hid the source, removed the headline and picture, and re-phrased the claim to make it sound more real. Then they used the data to prove that Babylon Bee is deceiving people??

https://twitter.com/FalseBeliefNews/status/1162349077977284608

@TheBabylonBee Here are the original authors of the study. Two of them funded by Facebook. Is Facebook using their crap research, laundering it through @snopes , then using that as an impetus for removing @TheBabylonBee content with invisible algorithms? Check this out...

@TheBabylonBee @snopes Here is another article written by this guy talking about fighting fake news algorithmically by recognizing "common word patterns" in "fake news" and assigning a credibility score based on data from...wait for it...
@snopes. They are trying to censor
@TheBabylonBee invisibly.

@TheBabylonBee @snopes ...Because they are cowards who would never own up to what they are doing. This will be done via algorithm, with Snopes laundering their "research" and providing cover. niemanlab.org/2019/08/one-po…

@TheBabylonBee @snopes Big Surprise. Here is the "Fact Checker" they made to be used by Facebook. Typing in all the articles on @TheBabylonBee's homepage, only one was detected as "satire" by the algorithm, and all the rest were labeled "fake news" to be made invisible online. fake-news.research.sfu.ca

@TheBabylonBee @snopes How much do you want to bet the
@TheBabylonBee articles fact-checked by
@snopes were used to feed this "fake news" algorithm which is being funded by Facebook and written by the writers of this article? They are literally processing @The_Kyle_Mann's joke pattern and using it...

@TheBabylonBee @snopes @The_Kyle_Mann ...to invisibly censor the Bee. This is what you call censorship laundering. Good hashtag. #censorshiplaundering