Philip Anderson
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998

Facebook "fact checks" Philip Anderson video with completely random articles: Users who attempted to post a video that Philip Anderson made from his hospital bed found the post "fact checked." Anderson was the organizer of the free speech rally on October 17, 2020 outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. At the rally, he was attacked by counter-protestors aligned with Antifa and BLM. He shot a video from his hospital bed, with one front tooth missing and another dangling in his mouth, where he asked Joe Biden if he still believes that Antifa is an idea and not a movement. Facebook has applied a "fact check" notice over this video calling it "false information." The supporting "fact check" articles that it used for this claim include one titled “Chinese tourists holiday in Indian hotspot? No, they’re actually in Tibet,” another titled “Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Board Marine One For The Hospital With A Portable Oxygen Concentrator In His Pocket,” and a third titled “Dozens of girls were not found in a Delaware shipping container.” As these clearly have absolutely nothing to do with Anderson's video, it is entirely unclear what they find to be false about his video. However, USA Today has done a fact check on the claim that Biden said that Antifa is an idea not a movement, where they determined the claim to be missing context, because he credited the statement to FBI Director Christopher Wray when he made it during the presidential debate. This is not the article that Facebook is using to "fact check" Anderson's video, though.

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