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Facebook Said My Article Was 'False Information.' Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong.

Posted on AllSides December 30th, 2021
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ANALYSIS

On Monday, I received a rather curious notification on Facebook. A friend alerted me that when she tried to share a recent article of mine, the social media site automatically blurred the accompanying image, replacing it with the ominous declaration that the link contained "false information checked by independent fact-checkers."

The article in question was this one: "The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science." As the Reason Roundup daily newsletter (subscribe today!), it contained information on several other subjects as well, but Facebook made matters fairly...

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https://reason.com/2021/12/29/facebook-masks-false-information-science-feedback-wrong-covid/

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