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Facebook likes to present its fact-checkers as impartial arbiters of squeaky-clean truth. The reality, however, shows they are no more bound by the constraints of certainty and infallibility than the users they monitor. Mark Zuckerberg, the...
Labels placed on posts on Facebook accompanying so-called fact-checks are opinion, lawyers for the social media platform's parent ...
Efforts to 'fact-check' result in turning control over to sloppy censors looking to control opinions.
Efforts to 'fact-check' result in turning control over to sloppy censors looking to control opinions.
I've reported how Facebook censors me. Now I've learned that they also censor environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, statistician Bjorn Lomborg and former New York Times columnist John Tierney. Facebook's “fact-checkers” claim we spread “misinformation.” In my new video, Tierney argues that the “people guilty of spreading misinformation are Facebook and its fact-checkers.” He's right.