Nov 29, 2022
Google and YouTube gave a $13.2 million grant to a global fact checker, and, as Matt Whitlock reported, it has "the potential to be one of the most catastrophic far-left censorship efforts in the history of the internet." "Google and YouTube are announcing a $13.2 million grant to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the nonprofit Poynter Institute to launch a new Global Fact Check Fund to support their network of 135 fact-checking organizations from 65 countries covering over 80 languages. Building on our previous work to address misinformation, this is Google and YouTube's single largest grant in fact-checking," Google Outreach reports. "Poynter (Politifact) has posed as a non-partisan fact-checker for years while being almost exclusively funded by far-left megadonors with political agendas," Whitlock tweeted. "Remember that Politifact already empowered by libs at Meta to demonetize and take down pages that don't promote libera