Facebook will add warning labels to ‘fake news’

To: Hambone 1934

"You label my news as fake and I can prove it...Sweetie,we have billion dollar lawsuit for SLANDER..After all,it was YOUR FACT CHECKERS who said my news was fake...There is malice if your checkers are liberal and my news is pro life,pro conservative or pro Trump..."

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what would and wouldn't fly from a legal standpoint, but I would not think they would be operating in good faith by allowing any viewer to label something as "fake" with no proof whatsoever, and with no review, especially if the disseminator of the information could PROVE that it was true.

Apart from First Amendment considerations, there also might be a racketeering angle, if the policy could be shown to be an effort to shut down competing businesses via malicious harassment.

41 posted on 12/15/2016 4:18:40 PM PST by Steve_Seattle

Another reason I’m glad I’m not on FaceBook.

42 posted on 12/15/2016 5:01:52 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)

Just like the economy, competition keeps everyone honest.

Facebook is leaving a hole big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through for competitors to destroy facebook.

43 posted on 12/15/2016 5:20:30 PM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)

44 posted on 12/15/2016 5:24:10 PM PST by McGruff (Must be a full moon or something.)

we cannot become arbiters of truth ourselves,

High hypocrisy: with this policy Facebook DOES name itself as the arbiter of truth.

45 posted on 12/15/2016 5:24:42 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)

I wouldn't buy any Facebook stock. As soon as people sense a problem with a product, there is sometimes a stampede to an alternative. During the bulletin board days, there was a product called ARC that would compress files so they could be downloaded quickly from a BBS. Anyway, there was some problem - the owners of ARC did something that angered everyone in the BBS community and I was shocked to see everything converted to something called ZIP in just a matter of days. So I downloaded an ARC to ZIP converter and all of the files on my BBS were in ZIP format. I think it took less than an hour. It was a change that happened blazingly fast and BBS owners all over the country were using Zip in what I think was a matter of days.

Today, we have the problem of Twitter banning so many Trump supporters and GAB.AI has had a flood of new users from Twitter as a result. Gab is actually better because you can upvote posts (like Reddit) and you can you more characters - plus, there is no censorship of conservative views. Apple doesn't want to approve a GAB app, but they can only make so many excuses. Soon, we'll have a nice Gab app. As for Facebook, I see there is something called 'Seen.life' but I don't know much about it yet. Vid.me may become a Youtube competitor. Anyway, things can happen quickly. The Facebook of today could be the MySpace of tomorrow.

46 posted on 12/15/2016 6:42:29 PM PST by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)

Is this a joke? Their “fact” checkers are hard core leftists.

47 posted on 12/15/2016 6:48:07 PM PST by DouglasKC

"Prominent literary figure H. L. Mencken was arrested in Boston in 1926, after purposefully selling a banned issue of his magazine, The American Mercury. Though his case was dismissed by a local judge, and he later won a lawsuit against the Watch and Ward Society for illegal restraint of trade, the effort did little to affect censorship in Boston. "

"... won a lawsuit against the Watch and Ward Society for illegal restraint of trade"

48 posted on 12/15/2016 6:56:25 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)

49 posted on 12/15/2016 6:57:14 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)

To: Steve_Seattle

True. If Gab.ai succeeds, I will look for something similar to arise as an alternative to Disgracebook.

50 posted on 12/16/2016 1:34:50 PM PST by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)

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