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1. A viral article w/climate misinformation, published on The Daily Wire, was rated "partly false" by a Facebook fact-checking partners

The fact-check was written by 7 PhD scientists

Then The Daily Wire and others complained

And the rating was removed

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2. Prior to the removal of the fact check, Facebook staff prepared a memo for top executives in which they considered the pros and cons of contacting Science Feedback and asking them to remove the rating

@emorwee and I obtained the internal Facebook memo

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3. The memo reveals that Congressman Mike Johnson, a member of the GOP leadership, contacted Facebook and asked them to remove the "partly false" rating

Facebook's policy team said it's "stakeholders" viewed the fact check as "biased"

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4. Facebook's comms team, however, advised against getting involved, citing previous reporting in Popular Information about its fact-checking program and special treatment for The Daily Wire

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5. The executive director of Science Feedback tells me and @emorwee, my co-author, that it was not pressured by Facebook to remove the fact check

But the scientists who produced the fact check also talked to us, and they are not happy

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6. Here is the giveaway: The fact check was not removed from nearly identical versions of the article published on other right-wing websites.

The change was only made for The Daily Wire

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7. The Daily Wire added a brief summary of the Science Feedback fact check at the end.

Nothing was corrected.

And the article was placed behind a paywall so you can only get to the Science Feedback link if you pay for a subscription

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8. This was a joint effort by me and @emorwee, who writes the climate change newsletter HEATED, and the article goes into detail about what The Daily Wire article gets wrong and exactly why its so dangerous.

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1. Federal agents from the CBP are snatching protesters off the streets Portland

Trump says he's deploying them to other cities

Meanwhile, the nation's top consulting firms are paid millions to assist CBP's operations and burnish its image

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A recent contract that covers "knowledge management" appears likely to assist the agency in the surveillance of protesters in Portland and elsewhere

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Advertisements produced by Ogilvy aim "to humanize the organization and its employees, using words like 'compassion.'"

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1. One of the central arguments to Trump's reelection campaign is that his opponent, Joe Biden, is mentally "diminished"

This thread will consist only of direct quotes from Trump's appearance today on Fox News Sunday
2. "I say flames, we'll put out the flames. And we'll put out in some cases just burning embers. We also have burning embers. We have embers and we do have flames. Florida became more flame- like, but it's -- it's going to be under control."
3. "Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Many of them -- don't forget, I guess it's like 99.7 percent, people are going to get better and many cases, they're going to get better very quickly."
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1. Facebook is lying about its fact-checking program and its approach to climate disinformation.

This gets a bit into the weeds but its worth it because Facebook is trying to use the complexity to obscure its actions, which are indefensible.

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2. First some background. Last month, @emorwee and I wrote an article about how Facebook overruled a fact-check by one of Facebook's independent fact-checkers, Science Feedback.

5 PhD climate scientists found a column in the Washington Examiner was false

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3. Facebook quietly overruled Science Feedback, finding that the column - which falsely claimed certain climate models were inaccurate - was opinion.

As we reported at the time, this is not how Facebook's fact-checking program is supposed to work

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