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In Court, Facebook Admits ‘Fact Checks’ Are Pure Opinion
“Fact checks” are nothing but a biased censoring mechanism, and now we have proof of
this fact, thanks to a lawsuit brought against Facebook by journalist John Stossel
In court documents, Facebook admits that fact checks are “statements of opinion” and
not factual assertions
Facebook recently censored a whistleblower report published by The British Medical
Journal (BMJ), one of the oldest and most respected peer-reviewed medical journals in
the world, variably labeling the article as “False,” “Partly false” or “Missing context.” Some
users reported they could not share the article at all
The fact check inaccurately referred to The BMJ as a “news blog,” failed to specify any
assertions of fact that The BMJ article got wrong, and published the fact check under a
URL containing the phrase “hoax-alert”
The BMJ calls the fact check “inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible.” In an open
letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, The BMJ urges Zuckerberg to “act swiftly” to
correct the erroneous fact check, review the processes that allowed it to occur in the