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Face­book is cen­sor­ing crit­i­cism of a fake fact-check pub­lished by an “inde­pen­dent fact-check­er,” who is bankrolled by both Chi­na and Big Tech.
The Fed­er­al­ist pub­lished a piece Mon­day head­lined, “The Geor­gia Vote-Count­ing Video Was Not ‘Debunked.’ Not Even Close,” by Fed­er­al­ist Senior Edi­tor Mol­lie Hem­ing­way, which inves­ti­gates how one of Facebook’s des­ig­nat­ed fact-check­ers sup­pos­ed­ly debunked claims relat­ed to an explo­sive video cor­rob­o­rat­ing Repub­li­can charges of elec­tion fraud in Georgia.

Moments before the post was pub­lished on Face­book how­ev­er, the com­pa­ny released a noti­fi­ca­tion to users that the post had been flagged for mis­in­for­ma­tion based on a sup­posed “fact-check” by one of its third-par­ty fact-check­ers, LeadStories.

Accord­ing to Lead­Sto­ries, which relies on fund­ing from a mix of Sil­i­con Val­ley tech giants Google and Face­book in addi­tion to Chi­nese-oper­at­ed ByteDance headquartered …