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.
Anthony Watts of Wattsupwiththat explains: MORE
The shocking thing isn’t that the fact checks are opinions. It’s that they actually admit it.
They were represented as facts, so no weaseling now FarceBook….
Anyone else seen the Facebook commercials BEGGING the US Government to REGULATE them?
WTF?
If that isn’t a fucking red flag…
I love that Zuckatraz graphic!
If they are saying that their “Factckeckers” are really just expressing opinion, then it sure sounds like a case of fraud to me.
ZUCKYOU FACEBOOK
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 …
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.
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?
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.
To discredit someone by misrepresentation of contrary opinions as fact is a malicious act and actionable when it is done deliberately and unilaterally
Deliberate, consistent and malicious in nature
Another weasel word is misinformation.
Things are either true or a lie.
If facts are indeed as fluid and malleable as Facebook seems to think they are, then how come they only bend and flow in one direction?
@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.
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.
a matter of stooopid opinions at that!