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We’ve had a few run-ins with Facebook’s so-called Fact-Checkers. Third-party left-wing activists picking contrary opinions peddled as fact. And now we’ve got an admission from Facebook’s lawyers that this is all it ever was.
In this court filing (John Stossel is suing Facebook for defamation), the tech giants argue that (emphasis mine),
Beyond this threshold Section 230 problem, …Stossel fails to plead facts establishing that Meta acted with actual malice—which, as a public figure, he must. For another, Stossel’s claims focus on the fact-check articles written by Climate Feedback, not the labels affixed through the Facebook platform. The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory; to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion. And even if Stossel could attribute Climate Feedback’s separate webpages to Meta, the challenged statements on those pages are likewise neither false nor defamatory. Any of these failures would doom Stossel’s complaint, but the combination makes any amendment futile.
In other words (I think), Stossel can’t claim defamation because the matter at hand is a question of opinion between “public persons” expressing differences. They can flag the views of others based on views they prefer, and that’s just fine.
It is, and perhaps there is no legal path for claiming to have been wronged on those terms, but the real damage is the admission itself.
read more:
https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/12/facebook-admits-its-fact-checks-are-just-opinions
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fakebook has always been a propaganda arm of the devildemocommiecrat party!!!!!!!!!!! They don't "fact check", they suppress truth because truth destroys the satanic narrative/agenda of the satanists!!!!!!!!!!
The Nazi Party also had its own "Fact Checkers", as did the " Salem Witch Trials. "
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
Facebook is just another arm of the demoncrats
Facebook is legion. Unsubscribe!!!
I was always against FB.........look what it has done to our youth!
Duh - Facebook; if they are opinons stop calling them fact checkers. Jsut by their very name, I would assume "fact checkers" check - well you know - Facts! another case of the libertards misusing words.
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