After the election of Donald J. Trump as President the Democrat-Media complex immediately blamed Russian interference and ‘Fake News’ for Hillary Clinton’s historic loss.
The accusations reached such a fever pitch that Facebook and Twitter announced new rules for their social media sites.
In December 2016 Facebook announced it was going to start fact-checking, labeling, and burying fake news and hoaxes in its News Feed. Facebook announced far left Snopes, Politifact, ABC News and the Associated Press would be their fact-checkers for “Fake News.”
In March the Columbia Journalism Review puslished a report titled: “Study: Breitbart-led Right-wing Media Ecosystem Altered Broader Media Agenda“.
The article found that only Breitbart, The Hill and FOX News (and The Drudge Report) were more influential than The Gateway Pundit in last year’s election with conservative audiences.
Since that report was published The Gateway Pundit has been targeted by the left with the intent of destroying our voice in the conservative community.
TGP has taken direct hits in advertising, social media shares, our reputation and personal threats.
On Wednesday Facebook banned a report from The Gateway Pundit.
The AP did not like the report.
We received this notice:
The AP blocked our report on an Alabama robocall.
Here is a screen shot of our robocall post:
The Gateway Pundit post contained information from Breitbart and WKRG in Alabama.
The story was also published on The Drudge Report.
But the Associate Press says it is FAKE NEWS!!?!
It is not clear who was behind the robocall but it does not take away from the fact that this was a legitimate news story.
If The Gateway Pundit receives a certain number of strikes Facebook will shut our account down.
This is what conservative news outlets are afraid of when the left started complaining of “Fake News.”
We can’t let this continue.