The email address was right on the same contact page where they presumably found Alan's phone number. The National Pulse stands by its reporting, and upon contacting Lead Stories' Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke by telephone, were told he would not discuss the matter, and that the only way to appeal was by e-mail. It contained several untrue or misleading statements that we wish to respond to: On June 18 they then published an article titled "EXCLUSIVE: Facebook's Fact-Checker 'Lead Stories' is Staffed by Exclusively Democrat Party Donors, CNN Staffers, And 'Defeat Trump' Activists." They never contacted us before publishing it. Lead Stories did reach out to him via phone later to ask if he still wanted to appeal but the call went to voicemail. They just silently changed the headline and kept in the implication that the Biden campaign might profit from the donations. The National Pulse never contacted us with a formal appeals notice nor did they add a correction notice to the story.
Why should I appeal to some guy I've never heard of, at some website I've never heard of, to appeal a story that I know to be factually accurate? Shortly after this Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, sent following tweets:Īlan Duke didn't want to speak, and urged me to email him to "start the appeals process". Alan was driving at the time and asked if they could send him and email or call back later. The National Pulse chose to ignore the guidelines and the instructions and instead directly called our Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke on his cellphone.
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Lead Stories also lists this email address on its contact page, along with instructions on how to submit an appeal or a correction.
Publishers are given the option to dispute a rating or to issue a correction by contacting fact-checkers via the email addresses publicly listed in the guidelines. But the link or post itself remains available. Rating causes a label to be added to the link or post in question with additional information. Note that being rated does not remove or delete a story from Facebook. In this case our determination was that the story was misleading because it implied the donations were not going to Black Lives Matter but to ActBlue and from there to other recipients. The claim(s) of the content are a mix of accurate and inaccurate, or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete. Similar claims were debunked by PolitiFact,, The Associated Press and The Columbus Dispatch.Īs part of Lead Stories work under Facebook's Partnership with Third-Party Fact Checkers we gave the story a rating of "Partly False." Under the guidelines of the program, that rating is reserved for content where: The story misleadingly claimed donations for Black Lives Matters went "to" payment processor ActBlue and implied that the Joe Biden campaign would profit from it. On June 17, 2020, Lead Stories fact-checked an article from The National Pulse titled "EXCLUSIVE: Black Lives Matter Website, 'Defund The Police' Donations Go to 'Act Blue', The 'Biden For President' Campaign's Top Source of Donations" that claimed to be an "exclusive" but merely repeated insinuations made earlier by several other people days before. Other claims in the story were highly misleading and omit crucial information.The remaining two founders who actually make the editorial decisions (Alan Duke and Maarten Schenk) never donated and are not registered voters.The story conveniently ignored the fact that one of our other co-founders, John C.He is a registered Independent who has donated to Democratic, Republican and Libertarian campaigns. Several of the accusations are blatantly false, for example that Lead Stories Co-Founder and Chairman Perry Sanders would be a "devout Democrat".After Lead Stories fact checked a story by The National Pulse they published an article accusing us of bias in favor of the Democrats after first quietly correcting their story.
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