Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's move away from third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, replacing it with a community-driven system similar to X's Community Notes. This comes amid Zuckerberg's observation of a shift towards prioritizing free speech. Breitbart News highlights past instances of biased fact-checking that allegedly censored conservative viewpoints.
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement that Meta will be making major changes to its content moderation policies and practices on Facebook and Instagram , included his blockbuster plan the eliminate the company’s biased third-party “fact checkers.” Breitbart News has compiled some of the worst moments of Facebook ’s “fact checker” era to show how the biased system was used to censor conservatives.
“This is not fact-checking,” said Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. “This is policing language to make life difficult for political adversaries. It is literally Orwellian. Facebook is coordinating with one of our competitors in an attempt to strong-arm us into changing long-standing editorial policy in order to confuse our audience and lessen our impact. It’s so obvious that what they are doing is ideological harassment.
In November 2021, Facebook’s fact-checking partners, including USA Today, Reuters, and Lead Stories, added warning labels to a video clip of Joe Biden interacting with his grandson at a funeral, claiming the post is “missing context” even though no description was provided. Another video from Stossel titled “Are We Doomed?” received a “partly false/factual inaccuracies” label from Facebook. In the video, Stossel questioned a number of theories from what he called “environmental alarmists,” such as “claims that hurricanes are getting stronger, that sea level rise poses a catastrophic threat, and that humans will be unable to cope with the fallout.
“Correction: PolitiFact originally labeled this video false in our capacity as a third-party fact-checker for Facebook,” PolitiFact announced last week. The Dispatch, a Never Trump website run by former intellectual Jonah Goldberg, Weekly Standard Destroyer Stephen Hayes, and David “Vichy” French, published a fake fact check that gave Facebook the cover it wanted to blacklist a series of pro-life ads.
PolitiFact, one of Facebook’s “third party fact checkers” has added a note to the 38-second clip, stating that it “lacks context.” This note now appears across all instances of the ad on Facebook. Self-proclaimed “meme artist” LUSHUX reported on Twitter that a humorous image featuring Hillary Clinton claiming to have killed Jeffrey Epstein was also “fact-checked” as false.
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