Recently, the Pointer Institute for Journalism published a list of what they call unreliable

news websites.

One of their stated goals is to inform advertisers they may be funding misinformation.

Almost immediately, conservatives called out the list because for one, the list is mostly

conservative.

It does include some left-wing sites, but there are many conservative news websites rated

as credible by news guard.

The reason this is damaging is because Pointer essentially runs Facebook's Fact Checking

Program.

If someone wants to be a Fact Checker for Facebook, they have to agree to Pointer's terms.

If Pointer produces a list saying conservative websites are fake news, well then it may

end up that these sites get removed from Facebook.

Now to make this whole thing even stranger, one of the sites listed on the list is the

Daily Caller, whose Fact Checking Arm, Check Your Fact, was approved by Pointer to Fact

Check Facebook.

It turns out the guy who made the list works for or with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Today, let's take a look at what's happening with this list and which conservative sites

were falsely accused of being fake news.

But before we get started, make sure you follow me on Mines at mines.com slash Tim Kest.

I've been talking a lot about censorship and people being blacklisted as a blake, so

one of the things I want to make sure I do is get as many of you to follow me on Mines

as a sort of backup channel.

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