Back in November, I published a post which I titled 'The Economist' is Running Scared. It was an article from a left-wing magazine on the horrors of 'identity politics' and the right in general.
In the article, the writer stated,
Society has created devices, such as libel, and ownership laws, to rein in old media. Some are calling for social-media companies, like publishers, to be similarly accountable for what appears on their platforms; to be more transparent; and to be treated as monopolies that need breaking up. All these ideas have merit, but they come with trade-offs.
When Facebook farms out items to independent outfits for fact-checking, the evidence that it moderates behaviour is mixed. Moreover, politics is not like other kinds of speech; it is dangerous to ask a handful of big firms to deem what is healthy for society.
I commented on this section,
The suggestion of using libel laws against social media is horrifying! How is Facebook or Google/YouTube in any way responsible for what is posted? What is being called for is censorship of opinion by an unaccountable, privately owned corporation, an idea I find detestable.-JW
Here are a couple of notes from a site called Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers which prove that my concerns were not the wild ravings of a righist fanatic.
Fully Fake | By Tim Graham | March 5, 2018 8:40 PM EST
in warning about the Christian satire site Babylon Bee. But was anyone
really going to buy this headline as real, Snopes? "CNN Purchases
Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication."
Once Snopes warned this was "FALSE," Facebook sent a note to
Babylon Bee threatening to mess with their ability to advertise and
monetize on the social site.
PolitiFact: Abortion Not Top Cause of Black Deaths, Killing Babies Is a 'Disputed' Fact!
Fully Fake | By Tim Graham | March 5, 2018 8:40 PM ESTGOP congressional candidate Jason Isaac declared in a League of Women Voters guide: "I will work to end abortion, which is the leading cause ofdeath for black Americans and kills as many as 1,000 black children every day." PolitiFact ruled it was "Mostly False." PolitiFact Texas analyst W. Gardner Selby can’t agree that abortion kills a human baby: “it’sworth noting for starters that Isaac’s characterization of abortions as killing babies is disputed.”Snopes.com Spurs a Facebook Ruckus By 'Fact-Checking' Obvious
CNN Satire by Babylon BeeTalk about humor-deprived! Snopes.com followed other fact-checkers
in warning about the Christian satire site Babylon Bee. But was anyone
really going to buy this headline as real, Snopes? "CNN Purchases
Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication."
Once Snopes warned this was "FALSE," Facebook sent a note to
Babylon Bee threatening to mess with their ability to advertise and
monetize on the social site.
So, we now see what 'independent outfits for fact checking do. In the first, the left-wing commitment to the Culture of Death makes PolitiFact claim that a plain statement of a scientific fact is 'mostly false' and a satirical article that no sane person would take seriously is labelled 'False' and leads to economic blackmail on the part of Facebook.
It is becoming more and more obvious that not only The Economist is running scared, but the entire liberal, marxist political class!
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