Facebooks Fact Checks are Just Opinion

Facebooks Fact Checks are Just Opinion<br /><br />Facebook just confirmed in court what we already knew: Their "fact checks" aren't facts. They're opinion. <br /><br />The tech giant is in the middle of a legal battle with TV journalist John Stossel, who is suing them because they fact-checked one of his stories.<br /><br />Facebook's defense? They say they shouldn't be the target of a defamation suit because their fact-checking is done by third-party organizations who are entitled to their “opinion.” <br /><br />Opinion? So Facebook uses opinions to fact-check posts? What about when the company fact checks information about Covid? Is that opinion too? Just asking for the tens of thousands of young people who had inflammatory issues after getting their covid vaccine...<br /><br />So here is what the New York Post Said about it...<br /><br />Facebook admits the truth: ‘Fact checks’ are really just (lefty) opinion<br /><br />Facebook finally admitted the truth: The “fact checks” that social media use to police what Americans read and watch are just “opinion.”<br /><br />That’s thanks to a lawsuit brought by celebrated journalist John Stossel, which has exposed the left’s supposed battle against “misinformation” as a farce.<br /><br />Stossel posted a pair of videos that touched the third rail of liberal politics — climate change. Neither questioned whether climate change is real, but each talked about other issues, namely forest management and using technology to adapt. Yet the third party that Facebook contracts to review these pieces, Science Feedback, flagged them as “false,” or our favorite, “lacking context.”<br /><br />Why? Science Feedback didn’t like Stossel’s “tone.” That is, you can’t write anything about climate change unless you say it’s the worst disaster in the history of humanity and we must spend trillions to fight it.<br /><br />For this, Facebook bans or minimizes Stossel’s reporting, depriving him of readers and revenue.<br /><br />Then, when sued, Facebook throws up its hands and says “not our