Facebook’s “Fact Checking”

You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that it’s one sided. I wonder if all this social-media censorship will revivify the blogosphere?

[Thursday afternoon update]

Facebook’s algorithm removed the text of the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech.” Because of course it did. I mean, Jefferson was a slaveholder.

8 thoughts on “Facebook’s “Fact Checking””

  1. Glossary:

    The System is Broken: We are unhappy that our candidate and lost by a large margin.

    Conversation: Remain quiet and listen to what we are telling you.

    Fact Check: Accept our take on a matter of considerable controversy.

  2. You left out one.

    Settled Science: There is no such thing as confirmation bias in an unvalidated computer model.

    1. Faithfully removing what the anti-American social “justice” wa-was have trained the filter to hate.

  3. I think going straight to libel lawsuits would nip that in the bud. Games are often winnable, if you don’t play by their rules.

  4. Are there conservative “fact checkers”? Maybe if Facebook users could choose which fact checker(s) to apply to their news feed it wouldn’t be so bad. I see a lot of drivel get shared from both left and right wing friends. For instance, one of my right winger friends shared an article, in all seriousness, about the government “chemtrails” conspiracy. He was offended when I called BS on it.

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