Facebook has suspended an Australian fact checking operation from policing content on its platform after a Sky News Australia investigation uncovered a secret foreign-funded bid to influence the upcoming Voice referendum.
Sky News Australia has obtained a letter from Senator James Paterson, the chair of the Australian senate’s powerful Intelligence and Security committee, which demanded Meta explain how its fact checking operation was allowed to censor important political debates.
“Given your recent evidence before the Select Committee, I am seeking a full explanation of how this was allowed to occur, and measures that will now be put in place to ensure that Meta will not further suppress legitimate public debate in the lead up to the Voice referendum,” he wrote. Skelton’s fact checking team ruled it was false to declare that the Uluru statement was longer than one page, and used quotes from one of its authors Professor Megan Davis as evidence.
At the recent Sydney Peace Prize award ceremony:"It's very important for Australians to read the statement, and the statement is also much bigger it's actually 18 Pages"
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