Meta’s Biased ‘Fact-Checkers’ in Panic Mode: Emergency Meeting Called After Zuckerberg Pulls the Plug on Their Propaganda Machine

Meta’s Biased ‘Fact-Checkers’ in Panic Mode: Emergency Meeting Called After Zuckerberg Pulls the Plug on Their Propaganda Machine

Meta’s Biased ‘Fact-Checkers’ in Panic Mode: Emergency Meeting Called After Zuckerberg Pulls the Plug on Their Propaganda Machine
January 8, 2025

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Meta’s so-called “independent fact-checkers” are reportedly scrambling after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major overhaul of the company’s controversial fact-checking initiative, which has been nothing more than a propaganda machine for leftist agendas.

On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the termination of the company’s controversial third-party fact-checking program.

After years of criticism for suppressing conservative voices and promoting a biased narrative, Meta will replace its fact-checking system with a user-driven “Community Notes” approach, modeled after Elon Musk’s platform X.

In a video statement, Zuckerberg finally admitted that Meta’s content moderation systems had silenced millions of Americans.

“Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that’s millions of people. We’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship,” said Zuckerberg.

“The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech. We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms,” he added.

Recall that on July 2023, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) released a batch of documents called “The Facebook Files, Part 1 to 4,” proving Facebook’s compliance with the Biden regime’s request to censor specific content on its platform.

Rep. Jordan said that these never-before-released internal documents, obtained via Judiciary Committee subpoena, proved that Facebook and Instagram altered their content moderation policies and censored posts under pressure from the White House.

“During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House—both publicly and privately—to crack down on alleged “misinformation,” Jordan wrote.

According to an internal email in April 2021 for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, an employee stated Facebook was continually pressed by “external stakeholders,” including the Biden White House, to remove certain posts.

Read more:

FACEBOOK FILES Part 1: Rep. Jim Jordan Releases Smoking-Gun Documents Proving Facebook Censored Americans at the Request of Biden Regime

In May 2024, the House Judiciary Committee released an 800-page report on the Biden White House censorship regime.

The report included numerous times the Biden regime threatened social media companies to censor, silence, and take down information on the COVID origins and the COVID vaccines.

Investigative reporter Mike Benz revealed “10 flaming examples.” Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon explicitly said they only passed censorship policies because they were threatened by the Biden government.

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Latest Government Report Reveals 10 Times Biden Regime Pressured Facebook to Take Down What Ended Up Being Truthful Information on COVID and the Vaccines – And The Gateway Pundit Was One of Its Primary Targets

In his recent video announcement, Zuckerberg outlined five key initiatives to return the platforms to their foundational purpose: giving people a voice.

  1. Replacing Fact Checkers with Community Notes
    Meta plans to phase out its controversial fact-checking system, replacing it with a community-driven notes model similar to X. Zuckerberg acknowledged that fact-checkers had become overly political, eroding trust among users. The change will begin in the United States and expand globally over time.
  2. Simplifying Content Policies
    Zuckerberg committed to removing overly restrictive content rules on sensitive topics such as immigration and gender. The goal is to foster a platform where diverse opinions can thrive without fear of suppression.
  3. Reducing Censorship Errors
    Meta will recalibrate its content moderation systems, focusing on high-severity violations while relying more on user reports for low-severity issues.
  4. Reviving Civic Content
    Responding to user feedback, Meta will reintroduce civic and political content into users’ feeds.
  5. Relocating Moderation Teams to Texas
    To address concerns of political bias, Meta’s trust and safety operations will move from California to Texas. Zuckerberg argues this relocation will enhance trust and balance in content review decisions.

Now, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), which has long been a cornerstone of Meta’s now-defunct program, is in full-blown crisis mode.

Hours after Meta's announcement, IFCN director Angie Holan confirmed an emergency meeting to address the fallout.

"This program has been a major part of the global fact-checking community's work for years," Nolan told Business Insider. "People are upset because they saw themselves as partners in good standing with Meta, doing important work to make the platform more accurate and reliable."

Holan and other fact-checkers have dismissed claims of censorship, insisting their role was merely to “add context.”

"It was never about censorship but about adding context to prevent false claims from going viral," Holan claimed despite mounting evidence to prove otherwise.

For years, conservatives, including The Gateway Pundit, have experienced the real-world effects of this “context,” often finding their posts buried, flagged, or outright removed for challenging progressive orthodoxy.

Conservatives have long criticized Meta’s partnerships with left-leaning organizations like PolitiFact, acting as gatekeepers to stifle viewpoints that challenge liberal narratives.

Business Insider reported:

The International Fact-Checking Network has convened an emergency meeting of its members following Meta's announcement on Tuesday that it will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the US and replace them with a crowdsourced moderation tool similar to X's community notes.

[...]

The meeting is expected to draw between 80 and 100 attendees from the IFCN's network of fact-checkers, which spans 170 organizations worldwide. Not all the expected attendees are Meta fact-checking partners, though many of them have a stake in the program's future and its global implications.

The IFCN has long played a crucial role in Meta's fact-checking ecosystem by accrediting organizations for Meta's third-party program, which began in 2016 after the US presidential election that year.

Certification from the IFCN signaled that a fact-checking organization met rigorous editorial and transparency standards. Meta's partnerships with these certified organizations became a cornerstone of its efforts to combat misinformation, focusing on flagging false claims, contextualizing misinformation, and curbing its spread.

[...]

An employee at PolitiFact, one of the first news organizations to partner with Meta on its Third-Party Fact-Checking Program in December 2016, said the company received virtually no warning from Meta before the program was killed.

"The PolitiFact team found out this morning at the same time as everyone else," the employee told BI.

Meta's recent policy changes across platforms like Facebook and Instagram follow Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Mark Zuckerberg is desperate to make amends with Donald Trump and the movement he represents.

The Meta CEO has appointed UFC President, fervent Trump supporter, and ally Dana White to the company’s board.

Zuckerberg has also ousted Meta’s left-wing executive Nick Clegg, replacing him with Republican Joel Kaplan, who served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under George W. Bush, in a dramatic shake-up of the company’s leadership.

For critics, however, these actions are far from sufficient to address the damage caused over the years.

Lives disrupted, incomes lost, and livelihoods destroyed through Meta's controversial moderation practices have left a lasting impact.

Many believe Zuckerberg should be held accountable for the harm and view these changes as too little, too late to atone for his crimes.

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ChatGPT Founder Breaks Silence After Sister Files Explosive Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Abuse from 1997 to 2006

ChatGPT Founder Breaks Silence After Sister Files Explosive Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Abuse from 1997 to 2006

ChatGPT Founder Breaks Silence After Sister Files Explosive Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Abuse from 1997 to 2006
January 8, 2025

Annie Altman with her brother Sam Altman (Screenshot: Annie Altman/Facebook)

Ann Altman, the younger sister of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI—the organization behind ChatGPT—filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that her brother subjected her to repeated sexual abuse spanning nearly a decade.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, alleges that the abuse occurred at the family’s home in Clayton, Missouri, between 1997 and 2006, starting when Ann was just three years old, and Sam was 12 and continued until she was twelve.

The filing claims that the abuse took place “several times per week,” beginning with acts of oral sex and escalating to penetration as the years progressed, CNBC reported.

According to the lawsuit, Ann has endured “severe emotional distress, mental anguish, and depression” as a result of the alleged abuse.

“The plaintiff seeks justice for the profound harm caused by the defendant’s actions,” the filing reads. It requests a jury trial and damages exceeding $75,000.

Ann Altman with her brothers Jack, Max, Sam Altman.

Sam Altman, who is openly gay, married his partner, Oliver Mulherin, in a seaside ceremony last year.

The Altman family has vehemently denied these allegations. In a statement released by Sam Altman, his mother, and his two brothers, they describe Ann’s claims as “utterly untrue,” attributing them to her long-standing mental health challenges.

The family asserts that Ann has previously made similar accusations accompanied by demands for money and has refused conventional treatment despite their offers of financial support and encouragement to seek medical help.

They express deep pain over the situation, stating that they feel compelled to address the claims publicly now that legal action has been taken.

Read the full statement below:

Our family loves Annie and is very concerned about her well-being. Caring for a family member who faces mental health challenges is incredibly difficult. We know many families facing similar struggles understand this well.

Over the years, we’ve tried in many ways to support Annie and help her find stability, following professional advice on how to be supportive without enabling harmful behaviors. To give a sense of our efforts, we have given her monthly financial support, directly paid her bills, covered her rent, helped her find employment opportunities, attempted to get her medical help, and have offered to buy her a house through a trust (so that she would have a secure place to live, but not be able to sell it immediately). Via our late father’s estate, Annie receives monthly financial support, which we expect to continue for the rest of her life.

Despite this, Annie continues to demand more money from us. In this vein, Annie has made deeply hurtful and entirely untrue claims about our family, and especially Sam. We’ve chosen not to respond publicly, out of respect for her privacy and our own. However, she has now taken legal action against Sam, and we feel we have no choice but to address this.

Over the years, she has accused members of our family of improperly withholding our father’s 401k funds, hacking her wifi, and “shadowbanning” her from various websites including ChatGPT, Twitter, and more. The worst allegation she has made is that she was sexually abused by Sam as a child (she has also claimed instances of sexual abuse from others). Her claims have evolved drastically over time. Newly for this lawsuit, they now include allegations of incidents where Sam was over 18.

All of these claims are utterly untrue. This situation causes immense pain to our entire family. It is especially gut-wrenching when she refuses conventional treatment and lashes out at family members who are genuinely trying to help.

We ask for understanding and compassion from everyone as we continue to support Annie in the best way we can. We sincerely hope she finds the stability and peace she’s been searching for.

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TICKETS GOING FAST… The Gateway Pundit to Co-Host Trump Inaugural Ball – Best Venue, Prime Location, Top Entertainment, and the BEST PRICE! GET TICKETS BEFORE THEY SELL OUT! – Special Guest List

TICKETS GOING FAST… The Gateway Pundit to Co-Host Trump Inaugural Ball – Best Venue, Prime Location, Top Entertainment, and the BEST PRICE! GET TICKETS BEFORE THEY SELL OUT! – Special Guest List

TICKETS GOING FAST… The Gateway Pundit to Co-Host Trump Inaugural Ball – Best Venue, Prime Location, Top Entertainment, and the BEST PRICE! GET TICKETS BEFORE THEY SELL OUT! – Special Guest List
January 8, 2025

Oregon Republican Party CD6 – The Gateway Pundit – and The Joe Hoft Show Present:

Join us in Washington, D.C., with friends from across the country for a MAGAbration honoring the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald J. Trump!

Where: The Hamilton Live, Washington, D.C.
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Time: 7:00 PM–11:00 PM
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Today, we have an exciting update: The Delta Youth Chorale will stop by the venue and sing a song or two for the audience. This top-notch group of kids is excited to join us!

About the Venue:

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The Hamilton Live, is Washington, DC’s premier music venue.  Located just steps from The White House in the lower level of The Hamilton, an award-winning restaurant. The concert hall boasts a capacity of 600, providing an intimate setting for both established and emerging artists.

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The Hamilton Live offers an unparalleled live music experience.

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Confirmed Guest List: Lara Logan, Gen. Mike Flynn, Gen. Charles Flynn, Roger Stone, Bo Snerdley, Peter Ticktin, Esteemed AfD members of the German Parliament, Actor Siaka Massaquoi, Joe Hoft, Jim Hoft, Nashville Recording Artists Coffey Anderson, Mark Mackay , Brandon Hartt, Matt Oakley and JJ Rupp and several more…

And The Delta Youth Chorale from Louisiana will make an appearance to kick off the evening.

For the record… The Delta Youth Chorale is still accepting appearances on Inauguration weekend. Please contact them here.


What’s Included:

  • Live music: Performances by top Nashville recording artists Mark Mackay and Brandon Hartt.
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Newly Declassified Files Reveal How Americans, Including Unsuspecting Civilians, Drugged and Tortured in CIA’s Secret Mind Control Program MKUltra

Newly Declassified Files Reveal How Americans, Including Unsuspecting Civilians, Drugged and Tortured in CIA’s Secret Mind Control Program MKUltra

Newly Declassified Files Reveal How Americans, Including Unsuspecting Civilians, Drugged and Tortured in CIA’s Secret Mind Control Program MKUltra
January 8, 2025

Newly declassified CIA files have shed light on the extent of the agency’s notorious MKUltra program, a series of mind control experiments conducted during the Cold War era.

On December 23, the National Security Agency (NSA) declassified a total of 20 documents spanning over 1,200 pages, shedding light on covert CIA activities conducted between 1953 and 1964.

This covert initiative involved a staggering 144 projects that explored the use of drugs, psychological torture, and sensory manipulation to alter human behavior.

CIA Deputy Director Allen Dulles spearheaded the initiative, justifying it as a response to perceived threats from Soviet and Chinese psychological warfare programs.

Former CIA Deputy Director Allen Dulles

According to a report by the Daily Mail, the documents reveal that the CIA subjected both ordinary Americans and targeted individuals—including prisoners, CIA, Army, and mental health patients—to psychological torture and hazardous drug experiments under the pretext of safeguarding national security.

The experiments included the administration of LSD, induced sleep, electroshock therapy, and a sinister practice known as “psychic driving,” which involved prolonged exposure to repetitive, pre-recorded messages while under the influence of drugs. The goal? To reprogram human minds.

The response from CIA’s Technical Services Section (TSS) Chemical Division lists 17 “materials and methods” that the Chemical Division was working to develop, including:

  • substances that “promote illogical thinking,”
  • materials that would “render the induction of hypnosis easier” or “enhance its usefulness,”
  • substances that would help individuals to endure “privation, torture and coercion during interrogation” and attempts at ””brainwashing.”
  • “materials and physical methods” to “produce amnesia” and “shock and confusion over extended periods of time,”
  • substances that would “produce physical disablement, including paralysis,
  • substances that “alter personality structure” or that “produce ‘pure’ euphoria with no subsequent let-down,”
  • and a “knockout pill” for use in surreptitious druggings and to produce amnesia, among other things.

In its pursuit of control, the agency partnered with pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly, which produced LSD on a massive scale. Safehouses, dubbed “black sites,” were established in urban areas to conduct experiments away from public scrutiny.

James “Whitey” Bulger, notorious crime boss, claimed he was one of the eight test subject for the CIA’s MKUltra program in 1957, enduring experiments that left him and fellow inmates in panic and paranoia. (Credit: Getty Images)

Daily Mail reported:

Gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, a former organized crime boss, was used as a test subject in 1957 while an inmate at the Atlanta penitentiary.

He explained he was one of eight convicts in a panic and paranoid state while in MKUltra.

‘Total loss of appetite. Hallucinating. The room would change shape. Hours of paranoia and feeling violent,’ Bulger penned.

‘We experienced horrible periods of living nightmares and even blood coming out of the walls. Guys turning to skeletons in front of me. I saw a camera change into the head of a dog. I felt like I was going insane.’

The National Security Archive (NSA) said in a statement: ‘The CIA conducted terrifying experiments using drugs, hypnosis, isolation, sensory deprivation, and other extreme techniques on human subjects, often US citizens, who frequently had no idea what was being done to them or that they were part of a CIA test.

‘These records also shed light on an especially dark period in the history of the behavioral sciences in which some of the top physicians in the field conducted research and experiments usually associated with the Nazi doctors who were tried at Nuremberg.’

One notable aspect of MKUltra was “Operation Midnight Climax,” where the CIA established safehouses in San Francisco and New York. In these locations, prostitutes on the agency’s payroll lured clients who were then secretly administered LSD without their consent, while CIA operatives observed and recorded their behavior from behind one-way mirrors.

In 1973, as public distrust in government reached a boiling point post-Watergate, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of MKUltra records.

However, some documents survived, and their exposure during the Church Committee hearings in 1975 ignited a national scandal. The revelations led to widespread public outrage and the creation of intelligence oversight committees.

You can read the file below:


You can read the rest of the 20 documents HERE.

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Transgender Activist Brags About Exploiting ‘Loophole’ to Change Gender on Florida License — State Sends Letter Thanking Him for Exposing the Error Before Reverting the Change

Transgender Activist Brags About Exploiting ‘Loophole’ to Change Gender on Florida License — State Sends Letter Thanking Him for Exposing the Error Before Reverting the Change

Transgender Activist Brags About Exploiting ‘Loophole’ to Change Gender on Florida License — State Sends Letter Thanking Him for Exposing the Error Before Reverting the Change
January 8, 2025

Screenshot: @jamesissmiling/TikTok

In a self-congratulatory TikTok post, transgender activist James Rose recently boasted about exploiting a “loophole” to change the sex listed on his Florida driver’s license to female, despite state legislation that explicitly prohibits such alterations.

Rose’s celebratory moment, however, was short-lived as Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) swiftly corrected the error and issued a replacement license identifying Rose as male.

In January 2024, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) implemented a policy prohibiting transgender residents from updating the gender marker on their driver’s licenses to reflect their gender identity.

On December 20, 2024, James Rose, a biological male who identifies as female, posted a video claiming to have successfully bypassed Florida’s strict regulations. The activist gleefully announced that his driver’s license now displayed “female” as the sex marker.

In a TikTok captioned “BIG WIN FOR THE DOLLS, BIG LOSS FOR RHONDA,” Rose mocked Governor Ron DeSantis and his administration.

Rose explained that the loophole allowed him to bypass state requirements by replacing a lost driver’s license instead of renewing it. By presenting a passport that listed his gender as female—a document that permits self-identification under Biden’s federal rules—Rose claimed to have forced the state DMV to follow suit.

Transcript below:

“I just got my gender changed on my driver’s license in the free f—king state of Florida. My God, Ron DeSantis would be screaming right now if he knew about this. This little license now says female on it.

I can’t show you because then you would know way too much about me, but it says female. This was the last step in changing all of my documents. This was not easy. You’re not even supposed to be able to do this in this state.

Here’s the loophole. Listen up.

If you’re replacing your driver’s license, not renewing it, but replacing it because you lost it, they have to take all of your information from what they consider a primary document.

A passport is considered a primary document, and you can self-identify on your passport, which means—loophole—you can self-identify on your Florida f—king driver’s license.

So my passport says female, and I showed it to them. They made a bunch of copies and had a whole f—king team meeting in the back. I sh—t you not. There were eight people looking at it, looking at me, looking back.

I swear I was like… I just felt like I was going to cry. It’s so humiliating sometimes to be in a hostile state. If you live in a hostile state, you know what I’m talking about.

I don’t know how possible it is to do this in every other red state. I don’t know the loopholes everywhere else as well as I know them here.

Then, on the way out of the DMV, a guy rolled down the window of his Ford F-250 and yelled, “Nice dick,” at me. So, good things don’t last forever, but that license is going to last 10 years.

I am wishing all trans people a positive and easy “get your documents in order” December. And Ron DeSantis, you can suck my trans.”

@jamesissmiling BIG WIN FOR THE DOLLS, BIG LOSS FOR RHONDA ‍⚧⚧✨ #trans #nonbinary #transrightsarehumanrights ♬ original sound – jamesissmiling

After the video gained traction, the incident caught the attention of Florida officials.

On January 6, 2025, the FLHSMV issued an official letter to Rose, invalidating the altered license and reinstating the original designation of male.

The letter clarified that Florida law requires driver’s licenses to reflect the individual’s biological sex as determined by “innate and immutable biological and genetic characteristics,” not gender identity.

The letter further stated that Rose’s public comments had been instrumental in bringing the error to the department’s attention. To ensure such mistakes do not occur in the future, FLHSMV announced plans to audit similar cases and issue reminders to local offices about the statutory requirements.

In addition to correcting the license, the letter hinted at potential legal consequences for Rose.

Under Florida law, knowingly providing false information in a driver’s license application constitutes fraud, a punishable offense that could result in license suspension or revocation. The letter alluded to Rose’s possible misrepresentation about losing their original license to initiate the replacement process.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, Jeremy Redfern, took to Twitter to address the situation, sharing a repost of Rose’s TikTok video from the Libs of TikTok account. Redfern clarified that the license had already been canceled and replaced with a corrected version.

“FLHSMV cancelled his license and sent him a corrected one that says “male.” That’s some dedicated service. He should thank them,” Redfern wrote.

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