They describe themselves as “impartial” and having “no conflicts of interest” but are they really as impartial as they make out. Let’s have a look at 3 of them, shall we ?
Reuters, Factcheck.org and Full Fact
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Within the last few weeks Dr Robert Malone on the Joe Rogan show used the term “mass formation psychosis”. It began to trend like crazy on Twitter. It is pretty obvious what it means but for the sake of completeness here is one definition of it
“Mass psychosis is defined as "an epidemic of madness" that occurs when a "large portion of society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions”
It should come as no great surprise that the fact checkers were all over it like a rash looking to debunk it. To anyone who has been paying attention to the covid mainstream narrative for the last 2 years it is obvious that there is “mass psychosis” taking place but why would one of the largest fact checkers Reuters deny it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-psychology-idUSL1N2TN1RE
Reuters
In years gone by pre-covid, Reuters was considered the go to source for reliable information. Alas, no more. In 2008 it was acquired by the Thomson Corporation and now makes up the media division of Thomson Reuters . But where do their interests lie ?
In 2020 Reuters had 13 journalists attending the World Economic Forum (WEF). This is the same fact checking company who fact checks BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4, DT, Guardian etc as well as all the content that goes on FB, Google, Twitter etc.
Thomson Reuters itself is also a member of the WEF.
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/thomson-reuters
Swinging doors between Reuters and Pfizer are not uncommon either as is evidenced by James C Smith, Chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation who also happens to be on the board of Pfizer.
https://www.pfizer.com/people/leadership/board-of-directors/james_smith
Coincidentally Smith also happens to be a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. That’s nearly a grand slam for James. Reuters, Pfizer & WEF. The only thing missing from his resume would seem to be a link to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).
However, it doesn’t end there. Much focus has rightly been on WEF & BMGF but there is another major player who by all accounts has slipped under the radar for the last 2 years. The Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). According to their own web site
“The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organization, think tank, and publisher”
Thomson Reuters themselves are corporate members of this influential policy think tank. Founder members are Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley amongst many others. Facebook and Google are also there who incidentally I will cover later as they are very involved with the Fact checkers.
Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson are also affiliates of CFR.
Nearly all the CFR corporate members are also WEF partners as well.
https://www.cfr.org/membership/corporate-members
The fox is truly guarding the henhouse.
FactCheck.org
Another big fact check player is FactCheck.org. They say on their site
“We do not seek and have never accepted, directly or indirectly, any funds from unions, partisan organizations or advocacy groups”
They openly admit to being very transparent about their funding which they are. It is however who funds them that is particularly interesting and the amount of funding they receive.
Since 2010 the Annenberg Foundation has funded $12 million. It was the Annenberg Foundation who founded FactCheck.org. Like many large grantmaking foundations, the Annenberg Foundation is known to fund many left-of-center political groups and causes.
https://www.factcheck.org/our-funding/
The foundation also founded the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which publishes a large election survey as well as policy research and papers. The Public Policy Center is best known as the publisher of FactCheck.org, a well-known and sometimes-criticized fact-checking website
The Annenberg Institute is affiliated to Brown University which is separate to the public policy centre, it has also received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the tune of $999,260 earlier this year.
https://www.annenberginstitute.org/news/gates-foundation-grants-annenberg-institute-999260
The same Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation funded Brown University $15 million
As mentioned earlier, the major tech companies also have an interest in the Fact Checking companies
Facebook since 2018 has funded $2.4 million and Google $220k. In both instances the money granted was to “debunk viral deceptions circulating on social media” and to “combat COVID-19 misinformation”. Then Factcheck.org says Facebook and Google have no control over their editorial decisions.
Another big spender is the Stanton Foundation who has funded $1 million. They are a private foundation established by Frank Stanton, a long-time president of Columbia Broadcasting System ("CBS") who served as president of CBS from 1946 through 1971.
ViacomCBS is the parent company of CBS and has high ranking executives who are in the WEF. Its flagship news channel CBS is watched by more than 5 million every night and is very influential.
Probably the most interesting company of all who has funded FactCheck.org is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Since 2021 (right in the middle of the pandemic) they have funded $250k. If the name sounds familiar that’s because it is. RWJF is the foundation for vaccine manufacturer Johnson & Johnson. Both RWJF and Johnson & Johnson are in the WEF.
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-rwjf
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/johnson-johnson-pharmaceuticals
Yet again FactCheck.org says the foundation has no control over their editorial decisions, and the views expressed on their website do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is run by former director of the CDC Richard E Bresser. Nearly 15% of the foundations assets are J&J stock
Even Republican politician Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie said “Bless Your Heart if you think factcheck.org is an unbiased source of vaccine information”
FullFact
On its Wikipedia page it says “Full Fact is a British charity, based in London, which checks and corrects facts reported in the news as well as claims which circulate on social media”.
Yet again big tech funds FullFact particularly in the shape of Facebook and Google. Censorship has reached unprecedented levels in the last 2 years and two of the biggest offenders have been Facebook and Google. Videos and articles have been removed from FB as well as YouTube and Instagram (both owned by Google)
https://fullfact.org/about/funding/
As you already know FB and Google are both WEF partners as well as being involved with CFR. FB has funded $1.4 million and Google $834k to FullFact.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook has been named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Zuckerberg also gave the keynote address in 2011 to the Bilderberg meeting.
Eric Schmidt , the Executive Chairman of Alphabet which is Google’s parent company, has attended 7 Bilderberg meetings since 2008. Sergey Brin along with Larry Page who co-founded Google are both also members of the WEF and previously Young Global Leaders.
Luminate and The Omidyar network who many probably haven’t heard of, also contributes vast swathes of money to the tune of $2.2 million. Ory Okolloh is the Managing Partner of Luminate and the Omidyar Network, and has been been named as a Young Global Leader and is also a member of the WEF. Time Magazine called her 100's most influential people in the world. Time is owned by Salesforce who are in the WEF.
Pierre Omidyar founded EBay and still sits on the board. He also runs the Omidyar network. He chairs Luminate, the philanthropic arm of it.
On the Luminate site they even have a section called Reset where they claim they want to “Realign the power of Big Tech companies with the interests of robust and resilient democracies”
https://luminategroup.com/reset
It should be abundantly clear by now that media companies, big tech and even vaccine manufacturers are very influential in the funding of Fact Checking companies and no doubt the information they put into the public domain. Fact checkers are being used by MSM and big tech as authorised information controllers and want them to do your thinking for you which is pretty Orwellian in nature.
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I love the fact that Facebook had to admit in a US court case a couple of weeks ago that it's fact checks were only opinion and therefore protected speech under the First Ammendment, as a defamation defence. The case was Sossel v Meta (Facebook).
More detail in the video linked below.
https://youtu.be/URZTVfmuhJI
The creater of craiglist for example too, created his organisation and funds the “fact” checkers, while he himself is part of the WEF young globals.
Even gaming services as DIscord now follow the fact checkers and censor everything that goes against the narrative.