RMIT’s fact checking service reinstated by Facebook two months after suspension over voice complaints

Exclusive: Meta suspended RMIT FactLab from Facebook's fact-checking program after no campaigners claimed it was biased

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Facebook has agreed to reinstate RMIT FactLab to its fact-checking program two months after it was suspended in the wake of repeated complaints by Sky News Australia about the key fact checker's debunking of claims by the no campaign about the voice.

No voice campaigners, including Sky host Peta Credlin, Liberal senator James Paterson and the right-wing think tank the IPA, claimed RMIT FactLab was biased and demanded Facebook remove it from its program which aims to tackle online misinformation.