Brian Noone

Facebook fact-checked a Breitbart article about the movie '2000 Mules' because it disagreed with the premise of the movie trailer: A user told CensorTrack that he posted a Breitbart article with the headline "Exclusive--Dinesh D'Souza: Latest Film Contains 'Smoking Gun' on how Ballot Harvesting Manipulated the 2020 Election." The article explained that the movie examined voter fraud in the 2020 election by using geolocation data to track cell phone movement in the vicinity of voting drop boxes. Facebook fact-checker PolitiFact flagged the article claiming it was partly false because the trailer for the movie included false content. PolitiFact also attacked D'Souza and True the Vote, the organization that helped him research the film, and repeatedly referred to the "2000 Mules" trailer and not the actual movie or the article it fact checked. The fact checker also quoted several experts who said that D'Souza and True the Vote's evidence was incredible because geolocation data can be imprecise. But the fact-checker ignored the very specific and targeted parameters for how the data was used in the investigation. Fact-checked posts lose exposure on Facebook feeds as they are negatively affected by the platform's algorithm. According to Facebook, users fail to click through a fact-check interstitial to see the post 95% of the time.

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