The "check" in "fact check" is more like a "body check" in sports, especially ice hockey: a deliberate obstruction of an opponent by placing one's body in the way.
From Watts Up With That?
Facebook has admitted in a court of law that such fact checks are not factual at all, but merely opinions.
Facebook just blew the “fact check” claim right out of the water in court.
In its response to Stossel’s defamation claim, Facebook responds on Page 2, Line 8 in the court document (download it below) that Facebook cannot be sued for defamation (which is making a false and harmful assertion) because its ‘fact checks’ are mere statements of opinion rather than factual assertions.
Opinions are not subject to defamation claims, while false assertions of fact can be subject to defamation. The quote in Facebook’s complaint is,“The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory; to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.”
Such “fact checks” are now shown to be simply an agenda to supress free speech and the open discussion of science by disguising liberal media activism as something supposedly factual, noble, neutral, trustworthy, and based on science.
It is none of those.
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