Posted on 09/26/2022 7:06:10 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The trigger-happy oligarchs at the censorship-obsessed Facebook are apparently so dense they don’t understand satire.
Satire site The Babylon Bee posted a funny photo of Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis wearing laced collars to honor the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The posted meme was a snapshot of a two-year-old Bee article published Sept. 22, 2020. According to Facebook, the joke was “false information.” The platform linked out to a 2020 fact-check by CheckYourFact.com to rebuke The Babylon Bee. The fact-check was headlined: “FACT CHECK: DID THE LAKERS WEAR LACE COLLARS TO HONOR RUTH BADER GINSBURG?” The Daily Caller wholly owns CheckYourFact.com.
News flash, Facebook: The meme was clearly a joke! The tech platform apparently realized how foolish it looked and later removed the fact-check from the post, but not before being blasted on social media for applying the fact-check in the first place.
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They don't seem to be all that sharp about facts either.
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Oh! the horror!
The sad thing is that so many things that The Bee has written have actually come true...
Those Facebook “fact checkers” got me today and put me in a 2 day timeout. I posted a Mussolini quote on a post claiming Meloni is like Mussolini. The quote in question:
“God does not exist—religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.”
- Benito Mussolini.
It was posted to prove this claim wrong. FB called that “hate speech”. Some lib whacko probably reported it.
It’s interesting that they would call that Mussolini quote hate speech when they say themselves that dangerous ideas and philosophies can spread like a disease.
In fact, they would probably agree completely with Mussolini about Christianity.
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