Elon Musk isn't pulling his punches when it comes to the Zuckerberg info-laundering machine.
The post was in response to a Sky News story shared by Michael Shellenberger, one of the reporters who debriefed the world on Twitter's collusion with the U.S. government to censor information and experts the White House and federal agencies didn't like.
There are hundreds of millions of people who still use Facebook and still believe its "fact checks" are mostly neutral. This report says the opposite is true.
A Sky News Australia investigation has uncovered a disturbing foreign-financed attempt to block political debate and news coverage around the Voice, which exposes the global fact checking system used by tech giant Meta as non-compliant with its own rules of impartiality and transparency.
In one case, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has been allowed by Facebook parent company Meta to block and deplatform Australian journalism, despite the platform knowing it was a breach of the rules Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg established to distance himself from fact checking responsibilities.
Meta maintains its fact-checking operation is at arm's length and independent, but Sky News can reveal the tech giant signed a secret commercial contract directly with RMIT which allows the fact checking unit to be paid up to $740,000 a year from an Irish Meta subsidiary.
How many of these contracts do you think Facebook/Meta has around the world?
Facebook has real power: It has proved that in Canada in recent weeks by turning off its news function there.
What kind of deals could a company, particularly an ideologically-driven mega-corporation that's used in some capacity by the majority of the human race, make to control information for profit?
Zuckerberg has given promises globally that Meta does not seek to be the arbiter of truth on the internet and has insisted his platform is policed by an opaque entity known as the International Fact Checking Network.
However, while RMIT was certified by the IFCN at the time the contract was signed, Sky News can reveal the certification expired in December, leaving the operation free to censor Australian journalism with no oversight at all.
After all, Facebook's profit comes from information. Why else do you think Mark Zuckerberg created a social network that knows all your friends, family, photos, hobbies, beliefs, places of interest, vacation destinations, location, and personal background?
So you could share photos of your puppy with your grandma?
Did you think all that was free out of the goodness of Mark Zuckerberg's heart?
It is just one of 55 fact checking operations around the world which remain signatories of the IFCN despite having expired credentials.
How might such "fact-checking" operations shape current events. Say, for example, that you really wanted to oust the president of the United States from power. It takes far less time and energy, with far fewer risks, to put ideas in people's heads while blocking other ideas than it does to hide layers of code in ballot machines nationwide or undertake a massive hacking effort without being detected.
Imagine if something like that were to happen! You might even get 81 million Americans to vote for the most senile and corrupt politician in the nation's history.
Fact checkers employed by RMIT have led to numerous code breaches, including one fact checker using her social media account to label Opposition Leader Peter Dutton a fear-mongering racist for his views on the Voice.
That same fact checker has published multiple Voice fact checks which were paid for by Meta and resulted in Australian journalism being censored on the platform.
There are thousands of these narcissistic activists out there and they love destroying people with the click of a button.
Shellenberger notes this important point about the "fact-checking" regime:
It is a vampire that can be killed through exposure to sunlight
These aren't brave people. They are hiding behind screens.
Now we need the brave people to expose them.
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