The ABC’s Media Watch has come out in support of Peta Credlin after the Sky News host was hit with a “fact check” by Meta over her claims about the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Debate over the 2017 document has been raging in recent weeks after Credlin, in a nightly editorial on Sky News, accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of misleading voters in the Voice referendum by not discussing the “full” 26 pages, which talk of “reparations” to Indigenous Australians under a future treaty.
Sky hosts duke it out over the length of the Uluru Statement as Facebook labels a Peta Credlin video âfalse informationâ. pic.twitter.com/Ghuim8D6LT
— Media Watch (@ABCmediawatch) August 22, 2023
Mr Albanese, the Yes campaign and the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), which released the documents under freedom of information earlier this year, have all maintained that the Uluru Statement is one page.
One week after Sky News Australia uploaded Credlin’s August 3 editorial to Facebook, the social media giant censored the post, blanking it out and labelling it “false information … checked by independent fact-checkers”, with a link to the RMIT FactLab website.
“False. The Uluru Statement is a one-page document comprising just 440 words, as confirmed by the statement’s authors,” the verdict read.
“Papers released under FOI contain the statement, but also include 25 pages of minutes of meetings held with Indigenous communities in 2016 and 2017, which are not part of the Uluru...
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