This revelation comes in the wake of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement that Facebook would be removing fact-checkers and transitioning to a community notes system, akin to the one used by X, formerly known as Twitter.
According to Mediaite, Zuckerberg likened Meta's fact-checking moderation system to a concept from George Orwell's dystopian literature, arguing that the third-party fact-checkers employed by his company were excessively biased. He further alleged that his employees were essentially coerced into censoring memes and factually accurate statements during the Biden administration.
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Richmond, defending the fact-checking industry on MSNBC's Saturday morning segment, expressed approval of community notes systems. He insisted that the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story was orchestrated by the government, not fact-checkers. "Let’s talk about how Mark Zuckerberg is saying, well, the fact-checkers are biased, fact-checkers are causing censorship,” Richmond said to network host Ali Velshi. “And we’ve already established that Facebook was one that determine when posts are taken down or not.”
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Richmond continued, "But let’s look at the most famous example of Facebook censoring content, and that was the Hunter Biden laptop story. And we say, well, it was fact-checkers, right? Who told the whole Zuckerberg to limit the reach of that? No, it was the government. So Facebook complied with the government, and then the fact-checkers get the blame. If Kamala Harris would have won, would he be taking any of these same actions now? No. He complied with what the government wanted then and is complying. What the new administration wants now."
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The Snopes CEO concluded by expressing his anticipation for Meta platforms adopting a "transparent" community notes system, which he believes should coexist with fact-checkers.
In October 2020, reports about a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden at a Delaware computer repair shop were stifled on Facebook and Twitter. It was only after the election that other media outlets authenticated the laptop and some of its scandalous contents. This sequence of events raises questions about the role of big tech companies and the government in controlling the narrative and the flow of information, particularly during critical times such as elections.