First Amendment right to lie.
It gets old trying to ferret out the truth nowadays, pretty much you just have to ignore it all.
A lie is as good as the truth, if you get somebody to believe it! Just ask the DemocRATS!
What about CNN, MSN, Huffington Post, NY Times, WaPo, LA Times, Politico, Slate, Time, Newsweak, abc, NBC, SeeBS and Vox viewers and readers? What do THEY face? This looks like another commie lib attack on the First Amendment to me.
“Any proposal built on intimidating Americans from sharing news stories on social media is headed in the wrong direction.”
Obviously that depends on who is looking at it; Dems need a media blackout to win, while free people need information.
It would seem like this would be a magnet for trouble. You could bring McCain in and interview him, and days later figure out that he passed fake commentary or info to the general public. The same could occur with journalists from the WaPo.
Absurd. The libel suit would need to demonstrate that a person sharing the story (1) knew that the story was fake and (2) had a primary intent to harm the subject.
If the person sharing the story can reasonably assert that they had no way of knowing whether the story was true or false, they are innocent of libel.
If the person sharing the story can reasonably claim that they weren’t trying to assert the story was true, but merely trying to present what sort of content was being said about the subject, then their primary intent was not to harm, and therefore they are innocent of libel.
EVEN the people generating the news, if they can reasonably claim that their intent was clickbait, not malicious harm, they are innocent of libel.
The only people I would suspect might be charged with libel are those the Democrats don’t want to go after: the endless Facebook groups like “I F***ing Hate Republicans” or “Too Smart to Vote Republican,” etc.
DemonicRats desperately want to create a Ministry of Truth that rules on what the “truth” is and therefore what information can be allowed to be released.
“There is no such thing as objective truth” is a basic tenet of liberalism.
I've written to any vendors that I have contacted through Facebook ads that I will NOT be doing business with them after all, because I found them on Facebook, and Facebook has censored me.
Maybe if a few million of us start doing that Facebook advertisers will send a message.
Also, they paid for advertising 'eyeballs' on FB's page, and I am no longer on FB's site... So what are they paying for?
This is the image they deemed too "offensive" without telling me who finds it offensive:
I tell ya', Libs are getting dumber and more desperate with each passing day!
The Leftist Democrats are desperate to impose censorship and silence anyone who disagrees with them. They will not give up on this. It has no chance now but if they are ever in a position to do it the Iron Curtain will come down.
“reports foreign governments spent $100,000 on 2016 political ads on Facebook.”
100K? They’re worried about 100K??
That’s less than a drop in the bucket when you consider that there was over a billion dollars spent on ads in the last election.
You get the idea.
Government Pravda, here we come.
Who gets to decide what is real news and what is fake news. ABC, NBC, CNN.... They’s all be out of business in a month with the libel suits against the Russia/Trump BS crap they have been peddling for over a year.
DRUDGE? Now WHO woulda thought mattie the rat scumbag would post fake anti-Trump news, fake anti-Trump polls and on and on? Dump Drudge go to thelibertydaily.com
Maybe the Justice Department should try to put Mark Zuckerberg in jail as an unregistered foreign agent trafficking in fake news. This might prompt at least a few of the Democrats to reconsider whether they want the government to police political speech.