Showing posts with label the weekly standard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the weekly standard. Show all posts

Censorship on Facebook: How it works. ThinkProgress "Fact Checked" by Conservative Magazine The Weekly Standard.

Using Logic... We can Mathematically Prove that Kavanaugh Will Overturn Roe v Wade...

Trump Said the Next Supreme Court Justice he Nominated Would Vote to Overturn Roe v Wade...
Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court Justice Nominated by Trump...
Therefore Kavanaugh will overturn Roe v Wade... 

However, "the Future is Uncertain and The End is Always Near... "

What if Kavanaugh Moved to Australia Next Week?
Just decided to go Scuba Diving instead of serving on the US Supreme Court?  Could Happen...
Then he won't overturn Roe v Wade...

What if he decided to STOP DOING EVIL? Could Happen...
Then he won't overturn Roe v Wade...

https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-weekly-standard-fact-check-thinkprogress-6176df1d5749/
Facebook’s idea of ‘fact-checking’: Censoring ThinkProgress because conservative site told them to... A perfect example of how Facebook is catering to conservatives.

Last year, Facebook announced that it would partner with The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, to “fact check” news articles that are shared on Facebook. At the time, ThinkProgress expressed alarm at this decision.


The Weekly Standard has a history of placing right-wing ideology before accurate reporting. Among other things, it labeled the Iraq War “A War to Be Proud Of” in 2005, and it ran an article in 2017 labeling climate science “Dadaist Science,” and promoted that article with the phrase “look under the hood on climate change ‘science’ and what you see isn’t pretty.”

The Weekly Standard brought its third-party “fact-checking” power to bear against ThinkProgress on Monday, when the outlet determined a ThinkProgress story about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was “false,” a category defined by Facebook to indicate “the primary claim(s) in this content are factually inaccurate.”

The article in question, which this reporter wrote, pointed out that, when you read a statement Kavanaugh made during his confirmation hearing alongside a statement he made in a 2017, it becomes clear he is communicating that he opposes Roe v. Wade. Our article is factually accurate and The Weekly Standard’s allegation against us is wrong.

There are serious consequences for publishing an article that one of Facebook’s third-party fact checkers decrees to be false.

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently wrote in the Washington Post, “we demote posts rated as false, which means they lose 80 percent of future traffic.”

When an article is labeled false under Facebook’s third-party fact-checking system, groups that share that article on Facebook receives a notification informing them that the article received a “False Rating” and that “pages and websites” that share that piece “will see their overall distribution and their ability to monetize and advertise removed.”

Wade effectively warned outlets not to share ThinkProgress content or risk censorship themselves. One group emailed ThinkProgress after receiving this notification to say they found it “threatening.”

ThinkProgress reached out to Facebook for comment on its third-party fact checking program and did not receive a response before this story was published.

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