I posted on Instagram this grotesque #Project2025 wishlist and got a message saying "Our technology shows that independent fact-checkers reviewed similar information and said it was partly false. . . .
Partly false information was found in your post by independent fact-checkers.
Fact-checker: The Dispatch [me: huh??]
Conclusion: Partly false
More information: Viral Claims About Project 2025 Are Mostly False The Dispatch is certified by the International Fact-Checking Network."

What's going on?

@cindyweinstein Dunno, but I posted this on Facebook just before the UK election last week and that also got flagged as false information.

Maybe they use AI to decide what's false and what isn't?

@statsguy. Hmmm. It's very strange. The Dispatch is a #conservatives organization founded by #JonahGoldberg, #StephenHayes et al. Why and how on earth they are fact-checking #Instagram posts is beyond me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispatch
The Dispatch - Wikipedia

@cindyweinstein @statsguy
Facebook frequently platforms certain provocative stances while diminishing others. Taken as a whole, they have a strong preference for action to be called for from the Right than the Left.

Also, it's a company ran by billionaires who stand to gain a lot (at least in their minds) if they can set us onto fascism. So we should expect that they are trying.

@cindyweinstein @statsguy they have used partisan, lying, right wing publications as "fact checkers" in Facebook in the past as well