Facebook Slaps "Fact Check" on Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave's article on mask mandates by misattributing claims to him. Facebook slapped a "fact check" on Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave's article headlined "The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science." The fact check reportedly linked back to a piece by Facebook partner Science Feedback, which claimed that "masking can help limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in schools" and that it was false to say that "there's no science behind masks on kids." Soave wrote in a follow-up piece that he had "never never made this claim."  Soave continued: "My Reason article, on the other hand, generated the following disclaimer from the social media site: 'Pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share false news will see their overall distribution reduced and be restricted in other ways.'" Soave reportedly appealed to both Facebook and Science Feedback to address their misapplied fact-check, which was successful. According to Soave, "Science Feedback admitted that they had flagged my article erroneously and that they would remove the 'false information' label. 'We have taken another look at the Reason article and confirm that the rating was applied in error to this article,' they wrote. 'The flag has been removed. We apologize for the mistake.'"