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Facebook 'Fact-Checker' Lead Stories Funded By Controversial Chinese Company That Owns TikTok
Facebook’s “fact-checking” partner Lead Stories is funded in part by a Chinese company called ByteDance LLC, which owns TikTok and has been accused of censorship on behalf of the country’s communist government.
Lead Stories was brought in to work with Facebook in February of 2019, “using its own technology, called ‘Trendolizer,’ to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news...