Instagram is Using False Fact-Checking to Protect Joe Biden s Crime Record From Criticisms – Glenn Greenwald
The only thing that is demonstrably false here is Instagram s Biden-shielding assertion that there is a fact-checking consensus that this criticism of Biden s 1994 crime bill is false. It is true that one media outlet, USA Today, fact-checked the identical claim posted back in June by the anonymous Instagram user and concluded that our research finds that while the crime bill did increase the prison population in states, it did not bring about a mass incarceration relative to earlier years. But that article so concluded even while admitting that Biden s crime bill did increase the prison population in states and any increase in the overall prison population would automatically translate into a larger number of Black inmates. The article s own premises thus bolster, not refute, the claim at issue.