Not so independent fact checkers

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Facebook's independent fact check may not be so independent after all. US congressman has questioned the impartiality of factcheck.org, which is supposed to tackle vaccine disinformation because it's indirectly funded by jab manufacturer Johnson and Johnson. Who pays the paychecks of the fact checkers? The vaccine fact checkers at factcheck.org, who claim to be independent, are funded by an organisation that holds over $1.8 billion of stocks in a vaccine company and is run by a former director of the centres for disease control. The fact checking account responded to the accusations by making clear its funding sources. The Robert Wood Johnson foundations, one of the benefactors and old's billions in Johnson and Johnson's stock. The foundation CEO is Richard Besser, who was a former acting director of the centre for disease control. But factcheck.org claims there's no interference in its editorial decisions and the foundation's views aren't necessarily reflected in its decisions. But author and liberal studies experts Michael Reckton-Valt believes such connections pose risks to the public. This is an absolute collusion on the part of vaccine manufacturers having funding the fact checkers on social media. So we're actually getting to the point where people's lives are being endangered. We've lost all confidence in the social media and our mainstream media entirely. Anything that comes into contradiction with the leftist agenda is deemed misinformation. People are now not able to get information about what's best for their health, including the detriment of the vaccine.