Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Draft Prager RFC
RFC on Various Proposed Edits
Which of the following seven additions should be made to the article?
Each of the proposed additions is described, and is then followed by a Survey section. Answer Yes in each of the Survey sections to include the material or No to exclude the material. Be brief and concise in the Survey, and do not respond to other editors. A Threaded Discussion section is provided for discussion following each item, in which the most important rule is civility.
=Item 1. Paragraph on Douglas Murray "The Suicide of Europe"=
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The 2018 video "The Suicide of Europe" about immigration to Europe, presented by author Douglas Murray drew criticism in the media, with Sludge's Alex Kotch contending that the video's "rhetoric of 'suicide' and 'annihilation' evokes the common white nationalist trope of 'white genocide'".{{cite web |last1=Kotch |first1=Alex |title=Who funds PragerU's anti-Muslim content? |url=https://readsludge.com/2018/12/27/who-funds-pragerus-anti-muslim-content/ |website=Sludge |access-date=20 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108101120/https://readsludge.com/2018/12/27/who-funds-pragerus-anti-muslim-content/ |archive-date=8 November 2020 |date=27 December 2018}} Kotch interviewed Mark Pitcavage, a fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, who said that while he didn't consider the video fascist or white nationalist, there was "certainly prejudice inherent in the video" and that it was "filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric".{{cite web |last1=Kotch |first1=Alex |title=Who funds PragerU's anti-Muslim content? |url=https://readsludge.com/2018/12/27/who-funds-pragerus-anti-muslim-content/ |website=Sludge |access-date=20 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108101120/https://readsludge.com/2018/12/27/who-funds-pragerus-anti-muslim-content/ |archive-date=8 November 2020 |date=27 December 2018}} The Southern Poverty Law Center described the video as a "dog whistle to the extreme right",{{cite web |last1=Brendan |first1=Brendan Joel |title=PragerU's Influence |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/07/prageru%E2%80%99s-influence |website=SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=26 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212142815/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/07/prageru%E2%80%99s-influence |archive-date=12 December 2020 |date=7 June 2018}} while Evan Halper in the Los Angeles Times said the video echoed some of the talking points of the alt-right.{{cite web |last1=Halper |first1=Evan |title=How a Los Angeles-based conservative became one of the internet’s biggest sensations |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-22/dennis-prager-university-conservative-internet-sensation |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218183936/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-22/dennis-prager-university-conservative-internet-sensation |archive-date=18 December 2020 |date=23 August 2019 |quote=Prager says he disavows the alt-right ideology that has gained ground in the Trump era, but the online lessons often echo some of the movement’s talking points. A video of Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing author, opining on why Western cultures are superior to others has been viewed 4.7 million times, for example. Another, featuring Douglas Murray, the British author of several books about Europe and immigration, laments that North African and Middle Eastern immigrants have been permitted to destroy European culture by refusing to assimilate. It has 6.7 million views}}
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=Item 2. Paragraph on video "The Charlottesville Lie" =
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The August 2018 video "The Charlottesville Lie" presented by CNN presenter Steve Cortes contested the claim that in the wake of the Unite the Right rally Donald Trump had used the phrase "very fine people on both sides" to refer to neo-Nazis. Cortes said in the video, which was later retweeted by Trump himself, that the media had committed "journalistic malfeasance" in reporting it as such.{{cite web |last1=Wagner |first1=John |last2=Parker |first2=Ashley |title=Trump shares controversial video recasting his Charlottesville comments |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-shares-controversial-video-recasting-his-charlottesville-comments/2019/08/13/426fcfa2-bdb5-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html |website=The Washington Post |access-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202065447/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-shares-controversial-video-recasting-his-charlottesville-comments/2019/08/13/426fcfa2-bdb5-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html |archive-date=2 December 2020 |date=14 August 2019}} The Forward's Aiden Pink and Mother Jones' Tim Murphy criticised the video, with Murphy calling it an attempt to "rewrite the History of Charlottesville",{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Tim |title=Donald Trump and His Allies Are Trying to Rewrite the History of Charlottesville |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-and-his-allies-are-trying-to-rewrite-the-history-of-charlottesville/ |website=Mother Jones |access-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211085702/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-and-his-allies-are-trying-to-rewrite-the-history-of-charlottesville/ |archive-date=11 December 2020 |date=3 September 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Pink |first1=Aiden |title=WATCH: Biden Confronts Breitbart Journalist Claiming Trump Didn’t Praise Charlottesville Marchers |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/429244/biden-breitbart-charlottesville-trump-very-fine-people/ |website=The Forward |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=9 August 2019}} while University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato bluntly rejected the notion that Trump was not referring to the far right with his "both sides" remark, saying that "anybody who tries to pretend that [Trump] wasn't encouraging the white nationalists [at Charlottesville] is simply putting their head in the sand".{{cite web |last1=Hawes |first1=Spencer |title=Video Reopens Debate On Trump's Charlottesville Comments |url=https://vpm.org/news/articles/5910/video-reopens-debate-on-trumps-charlottesville-comments |website=News | VPM |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=7 August 2019|no-tracking=yes}} Dennis Prager himself contended in The Australian that Google placed the video on YouTube's restricted list within hours of it being uploaded in an act of politically motivated censorship.{{cite web |last1=Praeger |first1=Dennis |title=Thou shalt have no other gods but Google |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/thou-shalt-have-no-other-gods-but-google/news-story/8726979b903b618f1d225659bcf9335c |website=The Australian |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=8 August 2019}} Cortes ceased working for CNN in January 2020, saying that he was "forced out" of the network for making the PragerU video defending Trump.{{cite web |last1=Brest |first1=Mike |title=Trump defender says he was ousted by CNN for condemning 'the Charlottesville lie' |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-defender-says-he-was-fired-by-cnn-for-condemning-the-charlottesville-lie |website=Washington Examiner |access-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206223442/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-defender-says-he-was-fired-by-cnn-for-condemning-the-charlottesville-lie |archive-date=6 December 2020 |date=21 January 2020}}
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=Item 3. Material on PragerU platforming far-right activists=
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=Item 4. Material from Data & Society=
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PragerU's videos on controversial topics are often highly visible and accessible through YouTube's search engine, with a report by the Data & Society Research Institute noting that a YouTube search for "social justice" returned the PragerU video "What is social justice?" that was highly critical of the concept as the first result.{{cite web |last1=Lewis |first1=Rebecca |title=Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube |url=https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf |website=Data & Society Research Institute |access-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221230827/https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf |archive-date=21 December 2020 |page=31 |date=2018}}
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=Item 5. Material about PragerU's videos with Owen Benjamin=
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PragerU received criticism for producing two videos in 2018 featuring comedian Owen Benjamin, who had attracted controversy for mocking Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor David Hogg, making racist and homophobic slurs in his material, and promoting conspiracy theories.Initial criticism in February 2019: {{cite news |last1=G |first1=Cristina López |title=PragerU YouTube video features bigoted conspiracy theorist Owen Benjamin |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/prageru-youtube-video-features-bigoted-conspiracy-theorist-owen-benjamin |work=Media Matters for America |date=4 February 2019 |language=en}}Subsequent criticism in July 2019: {{cite web |last1=Gladstone |first1=Benjamin |title=White House Disinvited Cartoonist Over Anti-Semitism - But Kept Others Who Promoted Similar Ideas |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/427459/white-house-disinvited-cartoonist-over-anti-semitism-but-kept-others-who/ |website=The Forward |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=11 July 2019}} In February 2019, Benjamin attracted negative publicity for making anti-semitic remarks,{{cite web |last1=Holt |first1=Jared |title=Owen Benjamin: Another ‘Red Pill’ Overdose Victim |url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/owen-benjamin-another-red-pill-overdose-victim/ |website=Right Wing Watch |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=12 February 2019}} and in April 2019 the Jewish Telegraph Agency's Bethany Mandel reported that he had made a "full-blown descent into Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism", while noting that his appearances on PragerU had helped him "maintain a limited degree of visibility in the conservative world.{{cite news |last1=Mandel |first1=Bethany |author-link=Bethany Mandel |title=How did conservative comedian Owen Benjamin became a darling of the 'alt-right'? |url=https://www.jta.org/2019/04/08/opinion/how-did-conservative-comedian-owen-benjamin-became-a-darling-of-the-alt-right |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=8 April 2019}} PragerU later removed their videos with Benjamin from their website and from YouTube.{{cite web |last1=Fisher |first1=Anthony L. |title=Comedian Adam Carolla's new documentary accidentally reveals that a lot of conservative 'free-speech warriors' are just free-speech tourists |url=https://www.businessinsider.com.au/no-safe-spaces-doc-ignores-right-attacks-free-speech-expression-2020-1?r=US&IR=T |website=Business Insider |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=12 January 2020}}
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=Item 6. Material about PragerU's Robert E. Lee video=
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In November 2020, PragerU attracted criticism for its video "Who was Robert E. Lee?" in which it defended the historical legacy of the Confederate leader Robert E. Lee and criticized attempts to remove monuments dedicated to him.{{cite web |last1=Montgomery |first1=Peter |title=PragerU’s Awful Defense of Statues Honoring Robert E. Lee |url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pragerus-awful-defense-of-statues-honoring-robert-e-lee/ |website=Right Wing Watch |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=21 December 2020}} Brandon Gage of Hill Reporter called the video an "overtly racist jumble of propaganda and historical whitewashing" and objected to the video's claim that Lee should be celebrated for his role in suppressing the slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859.{{cite web |last1=Gage |first1=Brandon |title=Prager University Praises Confederate General Robert E. Lee After His Statue Was Removed From the United States Capitol |url=https://hillreporter.com/prager-university-praises-confederate-general-robert-e-lee-after-his-statue-was-removed-from-the-united-states-capitol-88088 |website=Hill Reporter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221231825/https://hillreporter.com/prager-university-praises-confederate-general-robert-e-lee-after-his-statue-was-removed-from-the-united-states-capitol-88088 |archive-date=21 December 2020 |date=21 December 2020}} As of January 2021 the video is no longer available on PragerU's website or YouTube, but remains available in an archived form at the Wayback Machine.[https://web.archive.org/web/20201125232508/https://www.prageru.com/video/robert-e-lee/]
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=Item 7. Header material including some of the criticisms frequently directed at PragerU=
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The accuracy and reliability of PragerU's videos has been extensively questioned, with several sources referring to PragerU videos as containing propaganda{{cite web |last1=Shea |first1=Brie |title=Fracking Titans Spend Millions Proselytizing School Children |url=https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2015/04/30/conservatives-spend-millions-proselytizing-school-children/ |website=Rewire News Group |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=30 April 2015 |quote=But Prager University is noteworthy in two respects: the program seeks to insert right-wing religious and political propaganda into schools by providing content directly to teachers and students; and it has the generous backing of two of the richest men in the United States.}}{{cite web |last1=McMenamin |first1=Lexi |title=Can the Gravel Institute compete with the right-wing YouTube machine? |url=https://www.mic.com/p/can-the-gravel-institute-compete-with-the-right-wing-youtube-machine-48130839 |website=Mic |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=5 December 2020 |quote=“We saw it as an existential threat, because it's a way of taking young people, and preventing them from being on the left,” says Williams. “If you're just looking for an answer to a seemingly innocuous question, like what is the electoral college, or what is American history? If you Google those questions, chances are you're going to find a PragerU video, and they're going to masquerade to you as a university.” But “they're not a university,” Williams says. “What they are is very clever and very effective propagandists.”}}{{Cite web|last=Molloy|first=Parker|title=PragerU relies on a veneer of respectability to obscure its propagandist mission|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/prageru-relies-veneer-respectability-obscure-its-propagandist-mission|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Media Matters for America|language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Gita |title=The Gravel Institute Is Trying to Make PragerU, But Good |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7wawb/the-gravel-institute-is-trying-to-make-prageru-but-good |website=VICE |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=10 January 2020 |quote=The Gravel Institute is taking aim at PragerU, a YouTube channel that spreads disinformation and right wing propaganda. The YouTubers who have already tried wish them good luck—they'll need it.}} and misinformation.{{cite web |last1=Silverman |first1=Craig |last2=Mac |first2=Ryan |title=Facebook’s Preferential Treatment Of US Conservatives Puts Its Fact-Checking Program In Danger |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-arbiter-truth-fact-check-mark-zuckerberg |website=BuzzFeed News |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=13 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Solon |first1=Olivia |title=Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182 |website=NBC News |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=8 August 2020 |quote=In another case in late May, a Facebook employee filed a misinformation escalation for PragerU, after a series of fact-checking labels were applied to several similar posts suggesting polar bear populations had not been decimated by climate change and that a photo of a starving animal was used as a “deliberate lie to advance the climate change agenda.” This claim was fact-checked by one of Facebook’s independent fact-checking partners, Climate Feedback, as false and meant that the PragerU page had “repeat offender” status and would potentially be banned from advertising.}} Specific criticisms levelled at PragerU videos have included the claims that they perpetuate views associated with the far-right or alt-right,{{Cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Joseph|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/prager-university|title=How PragerU is winning the Right Wing culture war without Donald Trump|date=March 3, 2018|work=BuzzFeed News|access-date=March 12, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214050110/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/prager-university|archive-date=February 14, 2019}}{{cite journal |last1=Franz |first1=Barbara |title=The New Right on American Campuses: Challenges for Higher Education |journal=Digital Culture & Education |date=2020 |volume=12 |issue=1 |url=https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-12 |access-date=15 January 2021 |issn=1836-8301}}{{cite web |last1=Kotch |first1=Alex |title=Who funds PragerU's anti-Muslim content? |url=https://readsludge.com/2018/12/27/who-funds-pragerus-anti-muslim-content/ |website=Sludge |access-date=20 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108101120/https://readsludge.com/2018/12/27/who-funds-pragerus-anti-muslim-content/ |archive-date=8 November 2020 |date=27 December 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Halper |first1=Evan |title=How a Los Angeles-based conservative became one of the internet’s biggest sensations |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-22/dennis-prager-university-conservative-internet-sensation |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218183936/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-22/dennis-prager-university-conservative-internet-sensation |archive-date=18 December 2020 |date=23 August 2019 |quote=Prager says he disavows the alt-right ideology that has gained ground in the Trump era, but the online lessons often echo some of the movement’s talking points. A video of Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing author, opining on why Western cultures are superior to others has been viewed 4.7 million times, for example. Another, featuring Douglas Murray, the British author of several books about Europe and immigration, laments that North African and Middle Eastern immigrants have been permitted to destroy European culture by refusing to assimilate. It has 6.7 million views}}{{cite web |last1=Brendan |first1=Brendan Joel |title=PragerU's Influence |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/07/prageru%E2%80%99s-influence |website=SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=26 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212142815/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/07/prageru%E2%80%99s-influence |archive-date=12 December 2020 |date=7 June 2018}} contain controversial speakers,{{cite web |last1=Kaplan |first1=Alex |title=Here are the extremist figures going to the White House social media summit |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/here-are-extremist-figures-going-white-house-social-media-summit |website=Media Matters for America |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=9 August 2016 |quote=PragerU offers a platform to extremists. PragerU has offered a platform to extremist figures, including anti-Semitic bigot and conspiracy theorist Owen Benjamin and anti-LGBTQ bigot Steven Crowder. In his five-minute rant for PragerU, Crowder took issue with Columbus Day conversations centered on America’s original inhabitants in a video featuring racist cartoon depictions of indigenous people. PragerU is also home to a podcast hosted by former TPUSA Communications Director Candace Owens, who raised her profile through YouTube and Infowars punditry that included dismissing white supremacy and likening Black Lives Matter protesters to animals. She has also defended Adolf Hitler’s actions by saying, “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. ... I have no problems with nationalism.”}} including those linked to the far right,Initial Owen Benjaim criticism in February 2019: {{cite news |last1=G |first1=Cristina López |title=PragerU YouTube video features bigoted conspiracy theorist Owen Benjamin |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/prageru-youtube-video-features-bigoted-conspiracy-theorist-owen-benjamin |work=Media Matters for America |date=4 February 2019 |language=en}}Subsequent criticism in July 2019: {{cite web |last1=Gladstone |first1=Benjamin |title=White House Disinvited Cartoonist Over Anti-Semitism - But Kept Others Who Promoted Similar Ideas |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/427459/white-house-disinvited-cartoonist-over-anti-semitism-but-kept-others-who/ |website=The Forward |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=11 July 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Holt |first1=Jared |title=Owen Benjamin: Another ‘Red Pill’ Overdose Victim |url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/owen-benjamin-another-red-pill-overdose-victim/ |website=Right Wing Watch |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=12 February 2019}}Subsequent Owen Benjamin criticism in July 2019: {{cite web |last1=Gladstone |first1=Benjamin |title=White House Disinvited Cartoonist Over Anti-Semitism - But Kept Others Who Promoted Similar Ideas |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/427459/white-house-disinvited-cartoonist-over-anti-semitism-but-kept-others-who/ |website=The Forward |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=11 July 2019}} promote racism{{cite web |last1=Lopez G. |first1=Cristina |title=PragerU posts a video about Christopher Columbus that features a racist depiction of indigenous people |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/prageru-posts-video-about-christopher-columbus-features-racist-depiction-indigenous |website=Media Matters for America |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=8 October 2018}} and Islamophobia,{{cite web |author1=Bridge Initiative Team |title=Factsheet: PragerU |url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-prageru/ |website=Bridge: A Georgetown University Initiative |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=17 March 2020}} promote misleading information related to the COVID-19 pandemic,{{cite web |last1=Peters |first1=Jeremy W. |title=Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/hannity-limbaugh-trump-coronavirus.html |website=New York Times |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=1 April 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Sommer |first1=Will |title=Dennis Prager Licks Dirty Forks To Show COVID Who’s Boss |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/dennis-prager-has-the-worst-covid-takes-on-the-internet |website=Daily Beast |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=16 May 2020}}{{cite web |author1=Reuters Staff |title=Fact check: Sweden has not achieved herd immunity, is not proof that lockdowns are useless |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-prageru-sweden-herd-immunit/fact-check-sweden-has-not-achieved-herd-immunity-is-not-proof-that-lockdowns-are-useless-idUSKBN28C2R7 |website=Reuters |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=3 December 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Moran |first1=Lee |title=Conservative Pundit's Hot Take On Coronavirus Lockdown Gets The Slapdown It Deserves |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/dennis-prager-coronavirus-lockdown-statement-backlash_n_5ea95002c5b6123a1764e528?ri18n=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKg5SgemL4BHJ6edVCGg2sKy4z3_njyTSCjLn5B8l6oPBru4BjzVQirHF3lMup6iMuoT6cDfQ-09J88kw6cIi6cylYsrA6sN1CZeyW8YBSGZYexDB-8zaP50ns6vAvrKxaoNzNqUbUJ5pyj08fYV4csT1GkSQHt3zTFXJqQJ6vrY |website=Huffington Post |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=29 April 2020}} and contain misleading information related to climate change.{{cite web |last1=Silverman |first1=Craig |last2=Mac |first2=Ryan |title=Facebook’s Preferential Treatment Of US Conservatives Puts Its Fact-Checking Program In Danger |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-arbiter-truth-fact-check-mark-zuckerberg |website=BuzzFeed News |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=13 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Solon |first1=Olivia |title=Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182 |website=NBC News |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=8 August 2020 |quote=In another case in late May, a Facebook employee filed a misinformation escalation for PragerU, after a series of fact-checking labels were applied to several similar posts suggesting polar bear populations had not been decimated by climate change and that a photo of a starving animal was used as a “deliberate lie to advance the climate change agenda.” This claim was fact-checked by one of Facebook’s independent fact-checking partners, Climate Feedback, as false and meant that the PragerU page had “repeat offender” status and would potentially be banned from advertising.}}{{cite web |last1=Carrington |first1=Damien |title=Climate denial ads on Facebook seen by millions, report finds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/08/climate-denial-ads-on-facebook-seen-by-millions-report-finds |website=The Guardian |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=8 October 2020 |quote=Analysis of the ads run by these groups found 51 examples of disinformation, including an ad paid for by the conservative group PragerU that ran to 1 October. Its headline was: “Make no doubt about it: the hysteria over climate change is to sell you Big Government control.” The accompanying video said: “Fossil fuels are not an existential threat … The Green New Deal is an existential threat.”}}{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=David |title=YouTube has a big climate misinformation problem it can’t solve |url=https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/26/21068473/youtube-climate-change-misinformation-epistemic-crisis |website=Vox |access-date=15 January 2021 |date=27 January 2020}}
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