When it was posted on Facebook, the following prompts came up….

We’re to unconditionally accept and believe “fact checkers” with no names or credentials provided because they say so.

Independent fact-checkers on Facebook are signatories to the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network Code of Principles. Independent fact-checkers investigate stories in a journalistic process meant to result in establishing the truth or falsity of the story.
— Facebook

That “International Fact-Checking Network” is Poynter.org and we’ve discussed them before.

So, how does Facebook counter Dr. McCullough’s claims?

With selective, partial information.

Apparently, the “fact checkers” at Facebook have consciously decided to blow off opposing opinions from actual doctors and scientists.

NIH: Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19
Israeli Researchers: Study: Natural immunity ‘stronger, longer’ than vaccine immunity
Natural Immunity After COVID-19 Found Durable and Robust
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections
U.S. official finally acknowledges Covid-19 natural immunity: ‘As good as vaccine’
Emory University: COVID-19 survivors may possess wide-ranging resistance to the disease
MedPage Today: Quit Ignoring Natural COVID Immunity
Washington Post: Natural immunity to covid is powerful. Policymakers seem afraid to say so.
Fauci lacks ‘firm answer’ on COVID-19 natural immunity question
‘Ignore The CDC’: Johns Hopkins Professor Says Half Of Americans Have ‘Natural Immunity’

To be fair, there are many doctors and scientists who claim that the vaccines are superior to natural immunity. But for Facebook’s anonymous “fact checkers” whose credentials are withheld and then selectively label alternative medical and/or scientific opposing opinions signed by doctors and scientists as “false” is irresponsible.

That is, if forcing people to do something they don’t want is really the purpose.

One of the first questions to be asked is are Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg even qualified to screen ‘news’?

Don’t let a valid question get in the way of power-hungry narcissists.

Facebook is going to start fact-checking, labeling, and burying fake news and hoaxes in its News Feed, the company said Thursday.

A team of Facebook researchers will also review website domains and send sites that appear to be fake or spoofed (like “washingtonpost.co”) to third-party fact checkers, a Facebook spokesperson said. Of the 42 news organizations that have committed to Poynter’s fact-checking code of ethics, Facebook is starting out with the following four: Snopes, Factcheck.org, ABC News, and PolitiFact.
— Business Insider, 12/15/16

So, how is Facebook going to do this?

To combat fake news, Facebook has teamed up with a shortlist of media organizations, including Snopes and ABC News, that are part of an international fact-checking network led by Poynter, a nonprofit school for journalism in St. Petersburg, Florida.

We’re not sure how Snopes achieved the ultimate in fact-checking status.

Facebook ‘fact checker’ (Snopes) who will arbitrate on ‘fake news’ is accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes – and its staff includes an escort-porn star and ‘Vice Vixen domme’

Whoops.

Many news organizations have had their share of journalistic faux pas, but we’re now being informed of this “fact-checking network led by Poynter”?

The topic of funding is on the table because of the following paragraph on the Poynter website….

We are transparent about our funding sources. If we accept funding from other organizations, we ensure that funders have no influence over the conclusions we reach in our reports. We detail the professional background of all key figures in our organization and explain our organizational structure and legal status. We clearly indicate a way for readers to communicate with us.
— International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers’ code of principles

Over the years during debates with hostiles, liberals are quick to demand to know where a conservative gets their funding, yet when asked about where said liberal gets their funding, we’re told to go to a website where the funding normally isn’t disclosed.

And does THIS look like a detailed “professional background” of their faculty?

Aside from an “ethics” report where they brag about getting a $1 million donation from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark to “fund a faculty chair in journalism ethics”, there’s no readily available funding disclosure on the Poynter website while they appear to expect that of others.

Craigslist in the same sentence as “ethics” could almost be a bad punchline.

Even more suspicious is what happened when we attempted to get some numbers from nonprofit watchdog sites on Poynter….

We’ve always been rightfully suspicious of non-profit liberal career mills where good intentions trump a lack of mission accomplishment while very generous salaries are paid in abundance. We DID manage to find an insight as to why funding numbers and donors may be an inconvenient truth….

A new course on Islam designed for journalists tries to minimize the impact and importance of ”jihad” by comparing it to the number of murders in America each year. That same course claims ”right-wing activists” tried to tie American Muslims to terrorism and doesn’t mention examples of Islamic attacks on press freedom.

That’s the way a prominent news organization is teaching journalists in a three-hour online course. The Poynter News University, part of the Poynter Institute, launched the free course ”Covering Islam in America” to guide the media on their coverage of Muslim communities.

The George Soros-funded Social Science Research Council, which received $50,000 from the Open Society Institute ”For Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation,” is one of the groups behind the initiative, along with the Social Science Research Council at Washington State University. That fits with a theme for liberal financier Soros, who has spent more than $52 million on influencing the media. The Islamic course also links to another Soros-funded entity, the well-financed Center for American Progress.

This course is “A project of The Poynter Institute funded by The Knight Foundation.” Soros’s Open Society Foundations have worked closely with The Knight Foundation. They partnered up to start the Investigative News Network, which received $200,000 from the Knight Foundation and $100,000 from the Poynter Institute. The Knight Foundations President and CEO, Alberto Ibarguen, is also on the board for AOL and yet another key Soros backed group, the progressive investigative reporting start-up ProPublica.
— Media Research Center

Aside from a place where people see a news story and re-post it as if they were the insightful that found it in the first place, people should just use Facebook as a place to share your vacation and family pics.

UPDATE:

Is Snopes.com Really Going Broke While the Mikkelsons Live Large?