1. A viral article w/climate misinformation, published on The Daily Wire, was rated "partly false" by a Facebook fact-checking partners

The fact-check was written by 7 PhD scientists

Then The Daily Wire and others complained

And the rating was removed https://popular.info/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinformation">https://popular.info/p/fact-ch...
2. Prior to the removal of the fact check, Facebook staff prepared a memo for top executives in which they considered the pros and cons of contacting Science Feedback and asking them to remove the rating

@emorwee and I obtained the internal Facebook memo

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3. The memo reveals that Congressman Mike Johnson, a member of the GOP leadership, contacted Facebook and asked them to remove the "partly false" rating

Facebook& #39;s policy team said it& #39;s "stakeholders" viewed the fact check as "biased" https://popular.info/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinformation">https://popular.info/p/fact-ch...
4. Facebook& #39;s comms team, however, advised against getting involved, citing previous reporting in Popular Information about its fact-checking program and special treatment for The Daily Wire

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5. The executive director of Science Feedback tells me and @emorwee, my co-author, that it was not pressured by Facebook to remove the fact check

But the scientists who produced the fact check also talked to us, and they are not happy https://popular.info/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinformation">https://popular.info/p/fact-ch...
7. The Daily Wire added a brief summary of the Science Feedback fact check at the end.

Nothing was corrected.

And the article was placed behind a paywall so you can only get to the Science Feedback link if you pay for a subscription https://popular.info/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinformation">https://popular.info/p/fact-ch...
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