Facebook applies dubious “false info” fact-check label to Patriot Act video

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43 points·AndrewBissell··7 comments

The Patriot Act was set to expire. By voting to reauthorize the Patriot Act without amendments, the Senate was certainly voting to allow the FBI to spy on emails without a warrant, as this is what the Patriot Act would allow if they had reauthorized it.

Facebook tried to play semantics games in claiming this was false info and they were straight up wrong. By censoring the post of a major civil rights advocacy group Facebook may well have contributed to the bill flying under peoples’ radars and passing in the Senate.

Luckily the civil rights groups were able to eke out a win in the House, but this was dangerously close to passing.

It's pretty hypocritical to see this right after Zuckerberg said Twitter was in the wrong for doing the exact same thing.

https://www.newsweek.com/zuckerberg-says-twitter-wrong-fact-...

Well, that's what happens when corporations are entrusted with the task of deciding what's right and wrong.

Ideally, an educated citizenry would have the critical thinking skills and the ability to research, but absent that the social media corps are doing their best to help (albeit ham-handedly).

The alternative is what, the government? The very first amendment to the constitution explicitly forbids the government from interfering with the press.

The alternative is to not police speech, and let adults navigate as they see fit.

Yea that's gonna go well

We subscribe to two newspapers, we have a number of broadcast channels of TV and radio available. In every case, the news and opinion are coming from corporations. To be sure, the wild internet offers a great number of non-corporate sources of news. But that offers its difficulties also.

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