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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by mensetmanusman on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:24AM (#30007987)
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-will-stop-labeling-posts-questi...

Arguable whether adding a ‘fake news’ label is censorship.

Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by apatters on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:44AM (#30008182)
This is an important distinction. Claiming someone else's statements are false in fact is not censorship. What it is though is confirmation that Facebook is a publisher which publishes editorial opinions about things. (It's incidental that they claim their opinions are facts, publishers have been doing that since the beginning of time.)

The only real question is why the government exempts this particular corporation from following the usual rules that publishers have to follow.

Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by EricE on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:29PM (#30013543)
>Claiming someone else's statements are false in fact is not censorship.

It's worse - it's poisoning the well, which can be far more effective than outright censorship.

Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by AvocadoPanic on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:32AM (#30009358)
Look over here and watch me wave my hand while I say 'platform' over and over.
Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by _-david-_ on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:01PM (#30011530)
It is more of a soft censorship.