Editor For ‘Unbiased’ Facebook Fact Checker Tried To Bankrupt Conservative News Sites.

An editor for Lead Stories – a “fact-checking” outlet working for social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok – has attempted to coerce advertisers into dropping conservative media outlets as clients in social media posts unearthed by The National Pulse. The unearthed posts on Twitter from Lead Stories Copy Editor Leslie Lapides follow the outlet’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke repeatedly denying allegations of left-wing bias. Contrary to Duke’s insistence, Lapides has tweeted at least four times in support of a Sleeping Giants campaign targeting advertisers listed on Breitbart News. Sleeping Giants, which avows to “make bigotry and sexism less profitable,”

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WATCH: Facebook Fact Checker Says He is ‘Very Comfortable’ With Chinese Communist Relationship.

Alan Duke, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Facebook’s fact-checking partner Lead Stories, admitted he is “very comfortable” doing business with the Chinese Communist Party-linked technology firm ByteDance. The admission came during Duke’s appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room: Pandemic podcast, where he was questioned if he “feels comfortable being on retainer with a company that has a direct to the Chinese Communist Party and to the People’s Liberation Army and is included as part of a national asset.” ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, has seen its founder pledge to use the company to “promote socialist core values”

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SCALP: Facebook’s Fact Checker Says They Removed Staff After National Pulse Exposé.

Alan Duke, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Facebook’s fact-checking partner Lead Stories, admitted a National Pulse exposé into a writer’s financial support for Democratic candidates led to their removal from the role of “fact checking” political stories for the site.  A National Pulse exposé from June 2020 – “Facebook’s Fact-Checker ‘Lead Stories’ Is Staffed By Exclusively Democrat Party Donors, CNN Staffers, And ‘Defeat Trump’ Activists” – revealed that writer Gita Smith repeatedly donated to Democratic candidates and left-wing groups according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The left-wing donations are at odds with the outlet’s frequent claims they are unbiased

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WATCH: Big Tech’s Top ‘Fact-Checker’ Refuses to Drop Chinese Communist Party ‘Mouthpiece’ As Client.

Alan Duke – the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Facebook and TikTok’s fact-checking partner “Lead Stories” – admitted a stunning refusal to drop clients with ties to the Chinese Communist Party flagged by the U.S. government. The admission came during a War Room: Pandemic interview where Duke, whose outlet has censored several National Pulse articles critical of Joe Biden and Facebook. While the outlet claims to be “unbiased,” Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal that all donations from employees have gone to Democratic candidates and anti-Trump groups. In an effort to cover up the outlet’s left-wing bias, Duke alleges that co-founder

Facebook’s CCP-Linked ‘Fact-Checker’ is Now Censoring Stories Critical Of Zuckerberg-Funded Wuhan Lab Partners.

Lead Stories – a so-called “fact-checking” outlet partnered with both Facebook and the Chinese Communist Party-linked TikTok app – has launched a campaign to defend Wuhan Institute of Virology collaborator Ralph Baric after The National Pulse unearthed his 2018 remarks outlining how to “make money” from pandemics. Representing yet another conflict of interest, Lead Stories is funded in large part by Facebook, whose founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal charity has sent six-figure grants to Baric. As revealed by The National Pulse, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awarded a $433,000 grant to Baric’s University of North Carolina Chapel Hill lab for coronavirus research.

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Facebook’s CCP-Linked Fact Checker, Lead Stories, Is Censoring Articles About CCP Influence in the U.S. Elections

Lead Stories, the foreign-run, fact-checking platform used by Facebook, has censored a National Pulse article highlighting Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s acknowledgement of a U.S. government report which concluded that “China prefers that President Trump does not win reelection.” Lead Stories recently announced a partnership with the CCP-linked TikTok app. The fact-checker was recently enlisted by TikTok to “monitor misinformation about the 2020 election,” despite TikTok itself being routinely used to influence the election. Just days after this announcement Lead Stories began to censor stories on Facebook that harm the Chinese Communist Party’s interest. National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam commented on the

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EXCLUSIVE: Facebook Fact Checker ‘Lead Stories’ Lies About Donations, Admits Foreign Influence, Claims They ‘Know Where Female Reporter Lives’

“Lead Stories,” a Democrat-dominated Facebook factchecking partner, has published an excuse-riddled rebuttal filled with half-truths, disinformation, and unsubstantiated claims following a National Pulse investigation into their partisanship. The organization has also inadvertently revealed its editorial process is controlled in large part by foreigners in Belgium, raising concerns about foreign election interference in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election. “Say Hello to Natalie Winters.” The National Pulse can exclusively reveal that the partner for the social media platform which takes down Trump 2020 campaign posts has once again attempted to hide its affiliations with anti-Trump campaigns, politicians, and Democratic Party fundraising. The