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Nobody is checking the social media
fact checkers. It's time that changed

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Posted By: Moritz55, 5/27/2021 2:13:56 PM

The left-leaning American news media’s stunning reversal on whether the coronavirus could have been created in a Chinese laboratory is the latest example of the dangers of fact checking. For most of 2020 the supposed arbiters of truthiness insisted that lab leak stories should not be taken seriously and should be suppressed on social media. Just yesterday Facebook finally lifted is baseless ban of the lab leak theory. The real problem here is not that fact checkers got something wrong, it’s that they have the power to censor what journalism Americans see and consume unilaterally. Nobody is checking the fact checkers, and it is time that changed.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Birddog 5/27/2021 3:07:21 PM (No. 798413)
It will be interesting to see if the thousands who have been blocked/banned for "wrongthink" will get added back to fazebuk when it is determined that THEY were RIGHT all along..I caught a 7 day ban back in October for posting a "Cause/effect" pair of pictures of the shooting incident in Wisc, where a young man shot a slightly older man who was bashing him with a skate board, then trying to take his gun...after appeal they put the post back up, and allowed me back on. Last month they permabanned me for the same October positing/picture, even though no one had looked at it since except them (or at least no one commented since). "Violated depictions of violence standards..which must be redemptive or Defensive" to be allowed. I posit that the pics were both redemptive and defensive...but there is no avenue to retort/comment/explain to them, you can click an "Appeal" button , nothing more. POOF! I am disappeared from all sites. The several I moderate, my business page, my highschool reunion site, messenger, and all of the pictures from all of them...gone.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: virbots 5/27/2021 3:21:38 PM (No. 798419)
One reason why free speech is important. If one side of every topic gets consistently kicked out of the public square there is no healthy debate. Same with science (can we say global warming?). I have yet to see any evidence (other than computer models) that there is a positive feedback loop between CO2 and temperature that causes a runaway temperature. But *all* their models from the past ran hot when compared to actual temperatures today. So science tells us that the hypotheses built into those models *must* be wrong. Yet those who question the orthodoxy are the ones labeled as science deniers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MDConservative 5/27/2021 3:32:11 PM (No. 798422)
What are "facts" anymore? I am increasingly convinced that the public doesn't really care. They love causes, from hungry kids to oppressed minorities and hate. Whatever the "influencers" say is good enough. As conservatives seem to have no destination to their thinking except the past, it's tough to be an influencer peddling logic and good sense. People expect SOMETHING done. There are plenty of politicians and activist "foundations" willing to service that notion. For $19 bucks a month they'll send you a blanket and a photo of the waif, puppy or elephant you're fostering, kind of.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: local500 5/29/2021 6:59:16 PM (No. 800382)
Why "fact check" at all? Leave the reader to do their homework and decide. Thought police mafia should be brought down. You think something is wrong or is a lie? Put up your own article debunking it. Censoring speech under ANY excuse is nothing but a tactic borrowed from the Gestapo, KGB, and Statsi playbooks. Period.
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