The "right-wing" posts are claiming to be inaccurately or dishonestly "fact-checked" by left-wing outlets, disputing it, and having their objections confirmed.
> “Facebook was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content.”
It takes an awful lot of faith in one very specific facet of the "fact-checking" process on Facebook to think that it's perfectly fair and entirely neutral — while another facet helping people who are impacted by the "fact checks" call them into question is entirely unfair right wing favoritism.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 19.1 ms ] threadThe "right-wing" posts are claiming to be inaccurately or dishonestly "fact-checked" by left-wing outlets, disputing it, and having their objections confirmed.
It takes an awful lot of faith in one very specific facet of the "fact-checking" process on Facebook to think that it's perfectly fair and entirely neutral — while another facet helping people who are impacted by the "fact checks" call them into question is entirely unfair right wing favoritism.
I would suggest that this faith is ill-founded.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077359
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24082827