The fact-checker was recently enlisted<\/a> by TikTok to \u201cmonitor misinformation about the 2020 election,\u201d<\/a> despite TikTok itself being routinely used to influence the election.<\/p>\n Just days after this announcement Lead Stories began to censor stories on Facebook that harm the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam commented on the censorship: \u201cOstensibly, the job of Facebook\u2019s fact checkers is to highlight fake news. Not to challenge the editorial positions or news direction of reputable Western news organizations. Lead Stories is a group of Democratic donors and Chinese Communist Party collaborators demanding Western news sites bow to their<\/em> editorial preferences. We never will<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n When Facebook users interface<\/a> with the National Pulse story \u201cPelosi Confirms \u2018China Would Prefer Joe Biden,<\/a>\u201d they\u2019re met with veil cloaking the article accompanied by a \u201cpartly false\u201d brand as decided by \u201cindependent fact-checkers.\u201d<\/p>\n But the \u201cindependent\u201d fact checkers are actually overtly in partnership with TikTok, owned by ByteDance, the founder of which recently committed to using his companies to further the goals of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n Lead Stories says the Pulse story falsely identified Pelosi as \u201cconfirming\u201d the findings of a recent National Counterintelligence and Security Center intelligence (NCSC) report<\/a> which posited China supported Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n According to Lead Stories, Pelosi fell short of offering confirmation of the NCSC\u2019s findings, instead alleging she only \u201cquoted\u201d the report.<\/p>\n While the distinction may appear trivial, the original article was clear in conveying that Pelosi reiterated<\/a> the NCSC\u2019s findings, highlighting that she readily accepted China as backing Biden. Not once did she reject the claim.<\/p>\n While endorsing another finding of the NCSC report \u2013 that Russia prefers President Trump in the 2020 election \u2013 Pelosi professes that China and Russia are not \u201cequivalent\u201d in the severity of the threat they pose to the U.S. election. While each country\u2019s willingness to act in favor of their preferred candidate may differ, Pelosi is still confirming<\/em> that China backs Biden.<\/p>\n Lead Stories is hardly the \u201cindependent\u201d fact-checker it purports<\/a> to be.<\/p>\n Lead Stories staff, including Editor-In-Chief and co-founder Alan Duke, have extensive histories of working for establishment media outlet CNN. Collectively, employees at the outlet have over 120 years of experience working for the left-wing outlet which has extensive<\/a> links to<\/a> the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n Lead Stories also counts up to a quarter of its staff, including its Chairman and co-founder, as recurring\u00a0Democratic donors candidates\u00a0such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n Per the Federal Election Commission, not a single donation from a Lead Stories board member or employee was pledged to a Republican candidate. For example, writers have donated to a plethora of overtly anti-Trump Democratic campaigns and activist groups such as Swing Left<\/a>, a hard-left political group which\u00a0proclaims<\/a>:<\/p>\n And beyond collaborating with Chinese Communist Party proxy TikTok, Lead Stories\u2019 potential for foreign election interference is only augmented by the fact it counts Belgian national Maarten Schenk as its Chief Operating Officer, Chief Techincal Officer, and as responsible<\/a> for \u201cactually making the editorial decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n The foreign national also controls the company\u2019s sole source of revenue.<\/p>\n The National Pulse has reached out to Facebook for comment about their \u201cindependent\u201d fact checker but has, at the time of publication, received no response.<\/p>\nFAKE NEWS?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/h4>\nELECTION INTERFERENCE.<\/strong><\/h4>\n