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EXPOSED: Facebook’s Independent COVID Fact-checker Site FactCheck.org Funded By $1.9 Billion Vaccine Lobby
greatgameindia.com ^ | April 28, 2021 | greatgameindia.com

Posted on 10/15/2021 11:06:38 PM PDT by ransomnote

ransomnote: You'd think everyone would know by now that 'fact checkers' are owned and operated by the Big Tech censors and their allies. But still, I sometimes get some posting 'Factcheck.org' to me as if I will collapse in shame for posting something that corrupt organization doesn't approve of.  

A so-called independent fact-checker website FactCheck.org is exposed to be funded by the same $1.9 billion vaccine lobby group that it is supposed to check. The site is a Facebook partner whose articles are used to censor critical voices on the social media platform. It is headed by the former CDC director, which is again a conflit of interest.

 
EXPOSED: Facebook Partnered COVID Fact-checker Site FactCheck.org Funded By $1.9 Billion Vaccine Lobby

A U.S. congressman Thomas Massie has pointed out a fact that a COVID-19 vaccination “fact-checking” project conducted by Facebook-partnered website is actually funded by a group that holds $1.9 billion in Johnson & Johnson stock. The group is headed by the former CDC director.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky tweeted Saturday, “NOTHING TO SEE HERE … Former director of CDC is now CEO of the foundation that funds FACTCHECK.org’s vaccine fact checking program. Roughly 15% of said foundation’s assets are J&J stock.”

“Bless your heart if you think factcheck.org is an unbiased source of vaccine information,” he continued.

In a screenshot from Factcheck.org attached by Massie, it can be seen that the site explains that it’s SciCheck “COVID-19/Vaccination Project is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,” which it reveals is worth $53,501.

SciCheck is a section of the FactCheck website that it says “focuses exclusively on false and misleading scientific claims that are made by partisans to influence public policy.” 

“Vaccines benefit those who have had COVID-19, contrary to viral posts,” is the title of another recent SciCheck article.

The SciCheck arm of the FactCheck.org site is funded by the group named Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

The CEO and president of RWJF is Richard E. Besser. Besser has been leading RWJF since April 2017. Besser’s bio on the RWJF website states – “Besser is the former acting director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

Besser’s bio further explains that he worked as director of the ‘Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response’ at the CDC, then he joined ABC News in 2009, where he was the chief health and medical director.

“He also served as acting director of the CDC from January to June 2009, during which time he led the CDC’s response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic.”

Readers of GreatGameIndia would remember how the WHO faked the H1N1 pandemic a decade ago on behalf of the vaccine lobby.

Interestingly, while Factcheck.org has directly denied Rep. Massie’s accusation of bias in the article, “SciCheck and our Commitment to Transparency,” it ignores the possibility of bias stemming from Besser’s former role at the CDC. 

FactCheck.org defended itself against Rep. Massie’s accusation of bias, saying, “Contrary to Massie’s suggestion, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — as is the case with all of our funders — has no control over our editorial content. Period. Full stop.”

However, Massie nowhere says that RWJF has “control” over the editorial content of FactCheck.org. It is commonly acknowledged that outside parties can exercise influence upon an organization in a more indirect manner, such as through quid pro quo exchanges.

It is also noteworthy that FactCheck.org partnered with Facebook “shortly after the 2016” allegedly in order to “debunk hoaxes and malicious falsehoods posted on the social media site,” according to the University of Pennsylvania Almanac.

For extensively exposing the Vaccine lobby, GreatGameIndia is being targeted and being accused of spreading misinformation for the flimsy reason that our tweets were shared widely after the controversy.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bigtech; covid19; facebook; factcheck; internet; socialmedia
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1 posted on 10/15/2021 11:06:38 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote; upchuck

Ping


2 posted on 10/15/2021 11:13:27 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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3 posted on 10/15/2021 11:33:53 PM PDT by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: ransomnote

I look at every source now as liars.

I looked up Liberty Counsel on the charities rating. NO rating, guess why? Insufficient data.

I looked up their tax filings / reports. Hardly any of their money goes to administration but they do spend a lot on what they call Education / outreach of some kind. I’ll try to learn more.

Insufficient data for an organization that has been around for 30 years? Really, come on.

Liars. I’ll never trust another thing the charity rating group writes.

We are surrounded by liars, bias and controllers of one kind or another. It is time to drag them out into the streets and punish them or just get rid of them. They have killed us with our own Liberty.

You see, the problem with lying is that you can’t ever be trusted again. At least by anyone with even half a brain.


4 posted on 10/15/2021 11:37:01 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: ransomnote

5 posted on 10/15/2021 11:49:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

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6 posted on 10/15/2021 11:54:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: gundog; a fool in paradise; acapesket; Baynative; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ...
Thanks for the ping gundog.

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7 posted on 10/16/2021 12:04:45 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: ransomnote

Thanks for getting the truth out!


8 posted on 10/16/2021 12:24:20 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: ransomnote

In the same fashion, big pharma sends money to the FDA and CDC.

Massive conflict of interest.


9 posted on 10/16/2021 12:42:13 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: spirited irish; ransomnote

Thanks for getting the truth out!

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Agree


10 posted on 10/16/2021 12:44:05 AM PDT by thinden
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To: ransomnote

I’m no legal expert but this smells like a SEC violation


11 posted on 10/16/2021 1:01:18 AM PDT by daku
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To: ransomnote; Jane Long
Makes you wonder who funds the 'fact checkers' right here on FreeReublic.com, don't it?


12 posted on 10/16/2021 1:47:22 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Good point.


13 posted on 10/16/2021 1:54:12 AM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: bagster

It do.


14 posted on 10/16/2021 2:20:56 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

they don’t even try to hide it..


15 posted on 10/16/2021 6:48:04 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bagster; ransomnote

Makes you wonder who funds the ‘fact checkers’ right here on FreeReublic.com, don’t it?


Sure does make us wonder who’s funding the FR VPs/FRoctors.


16 posted on 10/16/2021 6:54:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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This is the sort of thing referenced immediately below...
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17 posted on 10/16/2021 7:09:44 AM PDT by null and void (As usual, the GOP was either totally unprepared for the onslaught or complicit in the tyranny)
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To: Jane Long; bagster
Sure does make us wonder who’s funding the FR VPs/FRoctors.

Yes, the ones who get very snide and insulting when you dare question or disagree with them. Makes me wonder if they’re getting paid by the post or by how many they can convince. 😏

18 posted on 10/16/2021 9:34:45 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Jeff Chandler

A wait a,,,,


19 posted on 10/16/2021 11:56:50 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: null and void

We’ve been Zucked yet again


20 posted on 10/16/2021 1:08:47 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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