Facebook says it's politically unbiased, and that it wants to stop the spread of fake news. But what happens when those goals are at odds?
In August, Rose posted a video titled “Abortion is NEVER medically necessary,” a recording of ashe gave at a Young America’s Foundation event. According to Health Feedback, an independent fact-checking website, the video was shared about 6,000 times before its claims were vetted by a team of three doctors employed by the website.
to get Facebook to “end the suppression of pro-life truth” and Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, among others, sending an angry letter to Facebook accusing it of exercising left-wing bias to stifle freedom of expression.
Apparently cowed by the letter, Facebook removed the fact-checking notifications from the Lila Rose video. It also told BuzzFeed News that it had contacted the Independent Fact Checkers’ Network , which accredited Health Feedback as an unbiased third-party fact-checking resource. IFCN has “opened an investigation to determine whether the fact checkers who rated this content did so by following procedures designed to ensure impartiality.
For many who track the social media platforms, the battle over the Lila Rose video highlighted the platform’s struggle to placate two distinct groups, whose goals are sometimes inherently at odds: those who accuse it of political bias, and those who accuse it of failing to prevent the spread of inaccurate information. In a
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