Facebook Exec Admits His ‘Fact-Checkers’ Could Be Biased [VIDEO]

WND | By Bob Unruh | June 14, 2021

‘They have their own agenda’

An executive for Facebook, Vice President Nick Clegg, has confessed that the company’s “fact-checkers” could be biased “and pursuing their own political agendas.”

The comments from Clegg were reported by the Daily Mail, which said the United Kingdom’s former deputy prime minister made the admission to European Union officials during a discussion about misinformation online.

Conservatives and Republicans have charged for months – even years – that the assembly of “fact-checkers” put together by Facebook is, in fact, extremely leftist in its political bent, and the results of those “fact-checking” escapades prove it.

The company started the “fact-checking” in 2016 because leftists claimed there were “misleading” claims that pushed the 2016 presidential election toward Donald Trump. The company has since been accused of suppressing legitimate news in order to convey a leftist agenda.

For example, for months it claimed that discussion of COVID-19’s possible origins in a Chinese lab were conspiracy theories and they were removed from the site.

Now, in fact, the evidence shows that’s a strong possibility, although it hasn’t yet been confirmed.

The Mail reported that the “bias” opinion was found in a European Commission document that it obtained.

It was in November during “talks about how the tech giant was tackling misinformation,” the report said.

Facebook has explained it uses a network of 80 groups around the world to flag “misinformation.”

“Stories deemed false or misleading are not removed from the site but flagged to users via a series of warning labels. Facebook’s sophisticated algorithms can relegate such stories so far down the site that few people would ever see them again,” the Mail reported.