Former fact-checker at Facebook fact-checks Zuckerberg on his current lies. [View all]

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No, social-distancing measures were never part of a plan to “install Sharia law” during the coronavirus pandemic. Nor does Nancy Pelosi’s husband own Dominion Voting Systems, the election-software company whose product “glitched in favor of Biden” in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. And SpongeBob SquarePants’s pineapple under the sea, while prime Bikini Bottom real estate, is not, in fact, located on Little St. James, the private Caribbean island once owned by Jeffrey Epstein.

I came to the above conclusions after hours of painstaking research, from scouring the then House Speaker’s financial-disclosure reports to cross-referencing satellite images of Little St. James with the address on the fictional fry cook’s elusive boating license.

Between late 2019 and the spring of 2021, I was part of Facebook’s third-party fact-checking initiative, spending my first job out of Columbia Journalism School, and most of the pandemic, debunking viral claims that were seen and shared by thousands before they ever came across my desk.

Mark Zuckerberg, announcing the end of fact-checking at Meta this week, claimed that “fact-checkers have been too politically biased” and have “destroyed more trust than they created.” As a former fact-checker, I’d like to rule that statement as false, unless Zuckerberg sees the truth itself as “too politically biased.”

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