The hypocrisy of social media companies acting as “fact-checkers”

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28 points·TurkishPoptart··6 comments

"Missing context"? So, it is true, but requires more nuance to properly understand? SMH.

What seems to bother many people is they perceive the social media "fact checking" as only going in one direction politically. This could be disproven if people could provide examples of left-leaning statements flagged by the "fact checkers."

If it turns out that lies are mostly told "from one direction politically", it then follows that "fact checking" will go "in one direction politically". I'm not claiming this is the case, but it certainly follows.

What are the odds of that? People on the left never lie?

You never implied it's all or nothing and I never implied it's going right or left. You made both conclusions all by yourself.

> What are the odds of that? People on the left never lie?

Instead of just presuming that people lie with a given frequency just because they don't share your opinion on politics, if you're really interested in getting the facts on who struggles with the truth then you can actually check what they are saying and determining if their statements do pan out.

Otherwise, this "let's split the difference on lying" approach just looks like an attempt to whitewash the manipulative baseless propaganda spewed by a populist political group with an infamous track record of lying and arguing in bad faith.

With all the cancellations and censorship on social media, it's a shame more twitter-famous types don't maintain e-mail lists. Those would be a lot harder to target for termination.

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