Stunning: Facebook court filing admits ‘fact checks’ are just a matter of opinion – IOTW Report

Stunning: Facebook court filing admits ‘fact checks’ are just a matter of opinion

American Thinker: By Thomas Lifson

Surprisingly little attention is being paid to a bombshell admission made by the attorneys representing the corporation formerly known as Facebook, Inc., which has now transitioned into Meta Platforms, Inc.

In a court filing responding to a lawsuit filed by John Stossel claiming that he was defamed by a “fact check” Facebook used to label a video by him as “misleading,” Meta’s attorneys assert that the “fact check” was an “opinion,” not an actual check of facts and declaration of facts.  Under libel law, opinions are protected from liability for libel.
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17 Comments on Stunning: Facebook court filing admits ‘fact checks’ are just a matter of opinion

  1. Then anything claimed to be a “fact” check was a fucking lie.
    A fact isn’t a matter of opinion.

    “A man is entitled to his own opinion; he’s not entitled to his own facts.”
    (dead white dude)

    “If I say a thing that I know is not perfect truth, it is a flat perjury.”
    (The Whole Duty of Man, Anonymous, AD 1536)

    A public lie should be followed by a swift execution.
    (me)

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  2. They’ll say anything to avoid responsibility. So this admission saves them from a worse position.

    Like 5 year olds making up lies on the spot when confronted and not knowing they’re making their case worse.

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  3. If not fact and in fact opinion then why did they go to such great lengths to convince otherwise? If they lie about something as fundamental as this then, if not malicious, then why? To discredit someone is by definition malicious, is it not?

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  4. This admission is indicative of the bind they find themselves in trying to make a tenable case for dismissal.

    Call a conference and submit a petition for summary judgment. This is the case right here.

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  5. @RadioMattM December 11, 2021 at 2:22 am

    > If they are saying that their “Factckeckers” are really just expressing opinion, then it sure sounds like a case of fraud to me.

    And that is anti-Semitism.

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  6. Well, we already knew that. That’s why I call them “Crap Checks”, because they’re just some fatassed, purple-haired tranny faggot in a cube in Palo Alto abusing power to impose a fantasy reality on the rest of us.

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