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Facebook's Fact Checkers Decline to Correct Coronavirus Misinformation from Verizon-Owned HuffPost

Fb's 9 first rate fact-checking partners, at the side of such allegedly prestigious retail outlets for the reason that Related Press and Reuters, collectively didn't habits a single truth check on an misguided post from the Huffington Put up, which repeated the misleading claim that President Donald Trump has a "stake" in a hydroxychloroquine drugmaker. As outlined by the use of Breitbart Information financial machine editor John Carney, Trump's family believe has a small investment in a mutual fund that owns shares of drugmaker Sanofi. How small of an investment? $1,485 at the maximum, alternatively perhaps as low as $99.10. 
Facebook's nine official fact-checking partners, including such allegedly prestigious outlets as the Associated Press and Reuters, collectively failed to conduct a single fact check on an erroneous post from the Huffington Post, which repeated the misleading claim that President Donald Trump has a "stake" in a hydroxychloroquine drugmaker. As explained by Breitbart News economy editor John Carney, Trump's family trust has a small investment in a mutual fund that owns shares of drugmaker Sanofi. How small of an investment? $1,485 at the maximum, but possibly as low as $99.10. 

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