Meta Pays Supposedly Independent Australian “Fact-Checkers” 800 Dollars Per Fact-Check

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Those who doubt that “fact-checking” is an industry created around the push for internet censorship that’s been going on these last years might be persuaded otherwise by information that emerged from a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by Australia-based reporter and commentator Avi Yemini, and it reveals the amount of money changing hands between Facebook (Meta) and its notorious “fact-checkers” whose purpose is supposed to be weeding out “misinformation.” And who are supposed to be “independent.” However, these efforts disturbingly often end up in plain censorship of “disfavored” opinion on political and social issues. And even though Yemini eventually had to withdraw his lawsuit in order to avoid costs he was unwilling or unable to pay, the legal process while it was ongoing produced some interesting findings, including the true nature of some of the “fact-checkers’” purported financial independence from Big Tech. Display content from rumble.com Click here to display content from rumble.com Always display content from rumble.com Open “This is why Avi Yemini has withdrawn his case against RMIT” directly var _oembed_269ddace956e3f7518eda6d8d3e0dedc = ‘{“embed”:”<iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="This is why Avi Yemini has withdrawn his case against RMIT" src="https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v35h1si\/#?secret=Lv27AdVMng" data-secret="Lv27AdVMng" width="1280" height="720" frameborder="0"><\/iframe>”}’; [data-embed-id=”oembed_269ddace956e3f7518eda6d8d3e0dedc”] { aspect-ratio: 1280/720; } According to a deal cited in the court documents, the figure went up to half a million dollars annually – and that’s involving just one “fact checking” operation, RMIT University’s FactLab, also based in Australia….Meta Pays Supposedly Independent Australian “Fact-Checkers” 800 Dollars Per Fact-Check