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1. Facebook made THE DAILY CALLER an official fact-checking partner.

That gives The Daily Caller the ability to label anything posted on Facebook as "false information" and dramatically reduce its distribution.

It's now using that power to boost Trump.

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2. On Friday, Politico published an article headlined "Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’"

The Daily Caller declared this was "false information." If you try to post the article to Facebook, this is what you see.

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3. The Daily Caller's fact check claims that Trump referred only to the Democrats' politicization of the coronavirus as a "hoax"

But that's not what Trump said

He said: "This is their new hoax"

The Daily Caller resolves that ambiguity in favor of Trump

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4. The Daily Caller justifies its ruling by claiming: "Throughout the speech, Trump reiterates his administration is taking the threat of the coronavirus seriously"

Throughout the speech, Trump minimizes the threat of the coronavirus

Read it yourself

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5. The bigger question is why Facebook allows The Daily Caller to make judgments about Politico's reporting.

The Daily Caller has a history of publishing false information.

And it published columns by a white nationalist.

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6. The Daily Caller does fact check false claims about Democrats but many of these are framed as clickbait.

For example: FACT CHECK: DOES THIS PHOTO SHOW OBAMA’S COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ID LISTING HIM AS A ‘FOREIGN STUDENT’?

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7. The Daily Caller's fact check operation is funded by the Searle Freedom Trust, a major funder of organizations that push climate disinformation and other right-wing causes

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8. The political narrative on Facebook is a BFD. That's why candidates spend millions on Facebook ads

That's why I spend so much time tracking how it deals w/political content

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10. UPDATE: Politico stands by its reporting, rejects The Daily Caller's fact check.

"We stand by the reporting and are proud of Politico’s long established reputation for accurate, nonpartisan, and impactful journalism"

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1. This AM, I published a piece on @darden, which operates @olivegarden & other restaurants. 1700+ in the US

I highlighted that, except where required by law, none of @darden's 170K+ workers got paid time off

10 hours later the company reversed course

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@darden @olivegarden 2. As of today, all 170K+ restaurant workers at @olivegarden, @LongHornSteaks, @YardHouse and other @darden brands will get paid time off.

Darden didn't respond to my inquiries last week, but sent me the details of the new policy this evening

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3. My piece this AM focused on how, during a coronavirus outbreak, lack of paid sick leave put workers & customers at risk. Many @darden employees told me they observed people coming into work sick because they couldn't afford to take time off.

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1. @darden, parent company of @olivegarden, DOES NOT provide its 170K+ restaurant employees w/paid sick leave (except in 11 states where it's the law)

I talked to @darden staff around the country and heard horror stories about people coming to work sick

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@darden @olivegarden 2. Even as the coronavirus spreads, @darden, which had $8.5 BILLION in revenue last year, and recently awarded its CEO a $15.7 million pay package, continues to make its workers choose between staying home sick and paying their rent

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3. "I remember times when people came in with flu, strep, common colds. Many times people wouldn’t go to the doctor because most of us didn’t have health insurance." -- A former server at @cheddarskitchen in Kentucky, another @darden restaurant chain

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BREAKING: This AM popular.info reported that the Trump campaign was running 1K+ ads on Facebook promoting a fake 2020 Census and Facebook will take no action

Just now, Facebook reversed course and said they will remove all the Trump census ads

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2. Facebook disclosed the decision in an email to civil rights leader @vanitaguptaCR.

"Upon further review, these ads are currently being taken down given the policies in place to prevent confusion around the official U.S. Census," the company said.

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Finding out that the Daily Caller is one of Facebook's new fact checking partners confirms my general impression that Facebook's leaders have very little understanding of what news actually is, how it gets made, or why it matters: axios.com/facebook-fact-…
Has nothing to do with the Daily Caller being conservative. (I wouldn't object to the WSJ being a fact checking partner of Facebook.) Has everything to do with the outlet being garbage.
The Daily Caller did a number of stories on #GrabYourWallet. A half dozen or more, I think? They reached out to me zero times to ask questions. As a result their reporting was full of errors. They're bottom feeders monetizing the hard work & overhead of reputable news orgs.
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