
Facebook insists its “fact-checks” are “opinion” and not based on facts, says a veteran reporter who sued the company.
John Stossel, a TV reporter for more than 50 years, recently sued Facebook, now known as Meta, for defamation. He said one of the social media giant’s “fact-checkers,” a group called Science Feedback, lied about him.
He also said a Facebook fact-checker admitted that one of Stossel’s videos was red-flagged due to its “tone” — not because it contained false statements.
“Wait — Facebook’s fact-checks are just ‘opinion’?! I thought fact-checks are statements of fact,” Stossel wrote in a column Monday for the New York Post.
“That’s how Facebook portrays them on its Web site: ‘Each time a fact-checker rates a piece of content as false, Facebook significantly reduces the content’s distribution … We … apply a warning label that links to the fact-checker’s article, disproving the claim.’
“‘Disproving.’ Sure sounds like Facebook claims its labels are statements of fact.” Read more at Newsmax.
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What is Facebook?
Do you expect them to spell their name correctly, Fakebook?
It’s like saying Snopes is a Fact-checking source.