Facebook Gets Heat Over 'Liberal' Fact-Checkers

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is taking heat from the right for Facebook’s new “fact-checking” initiative to police fake news.

The NY Post reports conservative pundits and publications are charging that most of the third-party organizations recruited this week to filter fake news stories from Facebook have a track record of liberal bias.

Snopes, ABC News, Politifact and FactCheck.org all “have records of left-wing partisanship — particularly throughout the 2016 election,” Breitbart News reported Thursday.

For example, the alt-right news site noted, Politifact had reported it was “mostly false” when Donald Trump claimed in a presidential debate that Hillary Clinton wanted “open borders.”

“PolitiFact made this ruling despite Clinton being on the record at a paid speech saying ‘My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders,’” according to Breitbart.

That’s despite Zuckerberg’s insistence this week that Facebook will “resist the path of becoming arbiters of truth ourselves,” as he scrambles to avoid accusations of censorship.

Elsewhere, the right-leaning Daily Caller reported that Snopes’ “main political fact checker,” Kim Lacapria, has described herself as “openly left-leaning” and trashed the Tea Party as “teahadists.”

Brent Bozell, president of the right-leaning Media Research Center, said in a Friday blog post that he had “expressed grave concern” in a conversation with Zuckerberg this week about “the liberal ‘fact-checking’ organizations Facebook has chosen.”