Facebook Fact Check misses the point of Independence Day meme: Freedom In America, a small conservative Facebook page, posted a snarky meme that read "If you need the president's permission to celebrate the 4th of July... then you don't know the meaning of Independence Day." The meme appears to refer to a speech given by President Joe Biden on April 21 of this year. In the speech, he laid out the conditions that must be met in order for Americans to celebrate Independence Day. "To celebrate our independence from this virus on July Fourth, with family and friends in small groups,.... [w]e all need to mask up until the number of cases goes down until everyone has a chance to get their shot," he said. He later claimed that if Americans "do [their] part" there is a "good chance" they can celebrate the occasion but that it "doesn’t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together." Rather than refuting the opinion of the meme which is based on Biden's own words, Facebook flagged the post, and the platform's fact-checker, PolitiFact, argued that since President Biden did not outright ban celebrations he is not claiming the authority that “Americans can only celebrate the Fourth of July if he says so.” 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.