Section 230 protects "interactive computer services", such as Facebook, and their users from liability wrt content that they get from other "content providers".

Section 230 protects "interactive computer services", such as Facebook, and their users from liability wrt content that they get from other "content providers". (FWIW, I think that there's a legitimate argument wrt liability protection of ICS, but I think that users should be liable for what they repeat.) Section 230 also protects ICS from liability wrt deciding what not to carry. However, Section 230 says nothing about liability for your own content. When Facebook says "we're banning that content because it's not factual", most of us would interpret that as "Facebook says that's a lie and the people saying it are liars." That's open to a defamation claim. That's what Facebook is trying to head off with "they're not fact-checks, they're opinions." https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230