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Re:Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “o... by filoeleven on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:03PM (#23919791)
I think I’m with you now. The nature of a factual claim is that it refers to other things that must be examined in order to determine if it passes or fails a rule, whereas for many kinds of images there is no external reference that has to be consulted: the content is all right there in the image itself.

In which case I’d have to agree! Thanks for taking the time to clarify it for me.

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Re:Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “o... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:57PM (#23920909)
Exactly! I would say that many other common rules follow the feasibility of images. For example it is easy to test if a post is doxxing, contains swear words, ect.
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