Exclusive: Meta suspended RMIT FactLab from Facebook’s fact-checking program after no campaigners claimed it was biased
Facebook has agreed to reinstate RMIT FactLab to its fact-checking program two months after it was suspended in the wake of repeated complaints by Sky News Australia about the key fact checker’s debunking of claims by the no campaign about the voice.
“It also provides fact-checking education and training to school pupils, university students, fact-checkers, journalists and civil society groups.”, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, told Guardian Australia the RMIT Fact Lab program will be restored. “I look forward to continuing FactLab’s close relationship with the IFCN in the fight against misinformation and disinformation.
Before the suspension Sky News claimed that the RMIT team “was responsible for several misleading fact checks against Sky News Australia which led to a censorship of journalism related to the Voice referendum”.
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