Facebook Fact Checked dead link to 2000 Mules documentary: A user posted a now deactivated GabTV link to Dinesh D'Souza's most recent documentary film '2000 Mules' and Facebook fact-checkers The Associated Press and PolitiFact flagged it as "partly false information." The film examined voter fraud in the 2020 election by using geolocation data to track cell phone movement in the vicinity of voting drop boxes. Both fact checkers argued that geolocation data can be imprecise and cannot absolutely confirm what a repeat visitor to a nearby voter dropbox did in the vicinity of the dropbox. But the fact-checker ignored the very specific and targeted parameters for how the data was used. 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. 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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