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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

FACEBOOK “FACT-CHECKERS” EXPOSED

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Just opinions!! After all the censorship, shadowbanning and warnings about misinformation, court documents now reveal that Facebook (now Meta) admit that their third-party fact checkers are only giving opinions on content.

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0:00.0

What holiday would be complete, wouldn't be complete without Mark Zuckerberg.

0:04.5

When he's not busy trying to put VR goggles on your face or upload your consciousness

0:07.9

into a USB stick, he's being taken to court.

0:11.8

This is what the headline looks like.

0:13.3

Facebook admits in court that fact checks are just opinion.

0:18.3

Now this is something that a lot of people already knew, but now it's coming out in court

0:22.2

papers.

0:23.2

And this was a lawsuit by John Stassel.

0:26.2

If anybody remembers, he's the XABC News and Fox Business Network correspondent and

0:32.2

journalist.

0:33.2

So it's about a month ago now, just at the end of November.

0:35.9

Here's the lawsuit.

0:37.4

John Stassel versus Facebook, science, feedback and climate feedback.

0:41.0

Those two are the fact checkers.

0:42.6

And it says in there, this is what Facebook wrote.

0:45.7

For one, Stassel fails to plead facts establishing that meta.

0:49.4

That's what Facebook is now called meta acted with actual malice, which as a public figure

0:53.9

he must.

0:54.9

For another, Stassel's claims focus on the fact check articles written by climate feedback,

1:00.6

not labels affix through the Facebook platform labels themselves are neither false nor

1:05.2

defamatory to the contrary.

1:06.9

They constitute protected opinion.

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