Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”

Re:Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “o... by AlexandrB on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @01:41PM (#23908952)

The problem in the linked article doesn't seem to be that the rules were ambiguous. Instead it seems as though they were perfectly clear but overruled by leadership because of external pressure. Plus there's this:

> Last week, however, ProPublica reported that explicit misinformation about voting remains rampant on the platform.

Voting misinformation is not ambiguous in the way you describe, yet Facebook doesn't care.

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Re:Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “o... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:05PM (#23910422)

I think we would have to discuss the examples given by propublica[1]. Almost everything I saw was a matter of opinion.

"Your democracy, your freedom is being stripped away from you, and if you allow that then everything this country stood for, fought for, bled for is all in vain"

"the democratic party wants to rig our elections by forcing all voters to vote by mail. Vote by mail WILL lead to fraud"

"“Flooding the nation with ballots that can be stolen, sold, discarded, and forged—THAT’s the path to Leftist victory in November.”

“You think coronavirus is a crisis, wait till you see the voter fraud epidemic we have here in California. And mark my words it’s heading to your state like a diseased bat out of hell.”

“If you mail in your vote, your vote will be in Barack Obama’s fireplace.”

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/outright-lies-voting-misi...

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