Facebook plays it just like Elected Dems. Politicians offload responsibility to bureaucrats then feign innocence if something goes sideways. Facebook gives third-party fact-checkers censorship carte-blanch but claims no responsibility for their antics.
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Candace Owens is Suing Facebook’s Fact Checkers
Candace Owens has stepped up and taken one for the team. Well, not the team. Social media’s so-called independent fact-checkers are none of the above. They create facts you never asserted and even fact-check your opinion. Owens has had enough; she’s suing.
They Purposely Misrepresent Your Point, and Fact-Check Their Misrepresentation
Both Facebook and Twitter do have us in their sights – and our traffic has taken hits because of that as they have throttled us. No matter, I’ve always maintained that I don’t write for the hits (although I’m happy to see them). I write about what either amuses or concerns me.
Challenging Fakebook – Grok Page Still Has Reduced Distribution for Sharing “False” News That Wasn’t False
Both the GraniteGrok Facebook Page and the Group are frequent targets for left-leaning “fact-checkers.” These folks are so good that they create the fact (we never asserted) then tell Facebook we did and label it fake news.
False Ideas, Political Smears, and Social Pollution
It seems like it was only yesterday that I was writing about a million-dollar federal grant to a University for the creation of a web service (called ‘Truthy’) that would scry into social media and identity suspicious memes and “false or misleading ideas,” political smears and even social pollution. All sorted and labeled as organic … Read more
Fact: “Fact Checkers” Aren’t Checking The Facts! [Updated and Bumped]
[Update: Looks like NRO once again caught Dylan Matthews “fact checking” Paul Ryan. This time Matthews set his sites on the Carter/Obama comparison that Ryan mentioned. So Matthews decided to use his skillful, analytical intellect to compile some charts. One problem, the characterization of his intellect just used is completely inaccurate. A correct characterization would be something like: a bumbling, dullard confounded by logic compiled the charts. It turns out he got busted cherry picking metrics to favor Obama and then believed his own jive and stated that the economy is doing better now than in 2009. Problem is, “…this is the year of the fact-checkers, and under the standards set by Matthews’s editor, this sort of thing would be classified as dishonest and untrue.” Doh!]
A few times this week, I stumbled on information about Fact Checker’s malfeasance.
First, on Tuesday, the “Politifiction” piece by the Editors at National Review Online reported on the skullduggery of Politifact. Among others, it demolished Politifacts flaccid refutation of the Romney ad that claimed Obama raided $716 billion from medicare. It’s definitely worth a read because it portends what’s to come and how “mistakes”, “mishaps” and “misunderstandings” will all coincidentally benefit BHO.