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Certainly not. Censorship is suppressing views. Fact-checking is identifying false information. They are only the same if you are only putting out false informa
by ajkjk 5y ago
Certainly not. Censorship is suppressing views. Fact-checking is identifying false information. They are only the same if you are only putting out false information. Then the fact-checking looks like censorship.
You will say, well, the fact-checkers tend to get political. Nevertheless, they're still fundamentally different than censors.
- kortilla 5y ago> Fact-checking is identifying false information. Right, identifying information as “false” is censoring it on Facebook because it suppresses it.
- ajkjk 5y agoThe difference is whether it is removed for being wrong versus for political/ideological purposes. You would not call a newspaper editor who refuses to publish dishonest journalism a censor, would you? Obviously there is a stance going around that 'calling things wrong' is being done for political/ideological purposes, but that doesn't make fact-checking censorship _in principle_.