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Facebook fact-checks Townhall article for quoting a fact-checked Wall Street Journal Article: Townhall published a short article about former Obama appointee Steven Koonin's recent book release and quoted the Wall Street Journal's review of the book. According to WSJ, the book, entitled "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters," argues that there is no scientific consensus on climate change. Climate Feedback initially fact-checked WSJ's opinion piece because the book review "repeats multiple incorrect and misleading claims" from the book. Facebook used the same fact-check article against Townhall's piece which merely quotes the Wall Street Journal. Users who try to post the Townhall piece are encouraged not to post the article because of the Climate Feedback fact check, and those who do post find the fact-check banner over their post. 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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