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Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg by lp0_on_fire on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:59PM (#29598288)
At no point prior to this claim in court has Facebook ever labeled one of their "Fact checks" as opinion. They've been passing them off as "objective".

I don't see how that's much different than a newspaper running front page stories that asserting that everything John Doe says is inaccurate then a year later saying "oh it was just our opinion".

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Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg by greenyoda on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:32PM (#29598588)
I certainly agree that Facebook wants its users to believe that their "fact checks" are objective. But the quoted paragraph wasn't intended for the general public to see - it's trying to get a judge to dismiss a lawsuit against them. Facebook would like to have it both ways: credibility for users and deniability for people who want to sue them. I wonder if the judge will be convinced by their argument.
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