Facebook names government-funded CBC's Radio-Canada as "fact-checker" for Canadian election (reclaimthenet.org)
Facebook has revealed that Radio-Canada, a French-language news service owned by the government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), will be serving as a “fact-checker” for the 2021 Canadian election campaign.
Would you want the White House Press Secretary to be your election fact checker? Even if they’re from your Party? Doesn’t that seem like a teensy bit of a conflict of interest? That doesn’t seem important to Facebook though.
And not only that, the CBC’s track record isn’t that good.
Some of CBC’s self-admitted errors this year include incorrectly describing the AstraZeneca vaccine as 100% effective in preventing the severe outcomes of COVID-19 in multiple stories, incorrectly stating that Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman had contracted COVID-19, and incorrectly reporting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had fatally shot a women in Edmundston, New Brunswick.
No worries. I’m sure this is the best for all Canadians.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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