The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) was set up by Poynter, a leftist "journalism nonprofit", and in 2019, was almost entirely funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar—a major
DEMOCRAT donor—as well as Google LLC and billionaire George Soros.
Who gets certified and who doesn’t is decided by the IFCN’s advisory board.
One member is Glenn Kessler, former foreign policy reporter and now the head of the "fact-checking" feature at
The Washington Post.
Kessler and his team recently published a book called “
Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth.” How impartial is that?
The other American is Angie Drobnic Holan, editor-in-chief at left-leaning PolitiFact, which is owned by Poynter. Holan characterizes the other board members as “very knowledgeable about U.S. politics and fact-checking practices.”
Its largest financial sponsor is major
DEMOCRAT donor Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund.
“Thousands of statements labeled as untrue or misleading are more properly considered the habitual verbal excess for a man known for his immoderate form of communication,” commented Mark Hemingway, senior writer at
RealClearInvestigations.
“Further, a great many of the objections to conservative statements amount to argumentative quibbles that aren’t really ‘fact checks.’”
On Sept. 18, the IFCN announced a collaboration project of 10 fact-checkers and the two largest Spanish-language American broadcasters, Univision and Telemundo, “to fight mis/disinformation” and “expose the record 32 million Latino voters in the U.S. to accurate election-related information from Sept. 15, 2020 through Inauguration Day in 2021.”
The sponsor of the effort is WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.
Facebook positioned itself as a major and unprecedented influence in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election after its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced new election-related content rules, a $300 million donation to local
DEMOCRAT campaigns, and a drive to "help" 4 million people register and vote.
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