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The mental gymnastics to contort labelling of posts as defamation is so laughable. There's nothing defaming about "we had X group review this post and they foun
by akersten 5y ago
The mental gymnastics to contort labelling of posts as defamation is so laughable. There's nothing defaming about "we had X group review this post and they found it was False." It doesn't matter if X group was incorrect in their assessment- what matters is that statement ("group reviewed and their finding was --") is purely true.
That's not defamation of character (which would be "this poster is lying"), it's a true statement about an opinion that was reached ("fact checkers consider this article False information"). It's a subtle, but critical distinction. They don't have a case, IMO.
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- djoldman 5y agoThe text generated and written by Facebook says: > False information next paragraph: > Checked by independent fact-checkers If you want to get to subtle and critical distinctions, a straightforward reading of the above is: "this is false information. the fact that it is false was checked by independent fact-checkers." A reasonable reading is that facebook labels the information as false and that that was *confirmed* by fact-checkers. If they mean to say: "fact checkers labeled this as false and so we are hiding this information" then they should say so plainly, no?