We Don’t Need No Stinking Facts: Social Media Turns Lies into Truth

Newsbusters.org ^ | 8/10/2021 1548 hrs EDT | Alexander Hall

[rktman]

It’s said we live in a post-truth world. If so, the social media companies and their so-called fact-checkers helped put us there. Facts no longer matter. Saying that women are men, the Wuhan lab leak theory is false or even claiming the president and vice president never were skeptical of the vaccine — those are the new approved “truths.”

Fact-checking doesn’t rely on facts. It often pushes a liberal narrative on everything from abortion to the coronavirus. PolitiFact and other so-called fact-checkers have a history of fact-checking factually true statements that don't suit liberal narratives.

That’s precisely what Facebook’s approved fact-checker PolitiFact did when it rated a graphic from the Media Research Center as both “Partly False” and “FALSE” in the same muddled fact-check — even though the image merely shared a chart from the Center for Disease Control.

Facebook’s trusted flagger PolitiFact came after the Media Research Center (MRC) for citing a graphic first released by the CDC. PolitiFact tried to combine three fact-check categories into one. It failed to note its issue as one of context, and chose to instead label the entire graphic as “FALSE,” but called it “partly false information” on Facebook. MRC spokesperson Iris Miller quipped, “If you disagree with the data or the chart, you should fact-check the CDC.” But punishing the MRC for using a CDC graphic is hardly the first time a supposed fact-checker undermined speech that debunks liberal narratives.

[rktman]

Uh, did we forget that the pronouncement has been made by pedo joe on more than one occasion that if the choice is between facts and "truth" they will choose "truth". HUH! Pretty sure the intent was they will "decide" the "truth".

[Steely Tom]

The MSM’s has value only to the extent that it can project a virtual reality to its viewers. Those who support the MSM financially are not interested in “informing the public” or in being “the first draft of history.” They are interested in propaganda for the purpose of control of the population.

[1Old Pro]

Yet Congress allows this to occur.

[Louis Foxwell]

We have traded reason for blind acceptance of political narrative. No longer is it appropriate to think. We are required to parrot what our overlords tell us is true.

[nagant]

“...or even claiming the president and vice president never were skeptical of the vaccine”

The Biden regime is threatened by vaccines because they threaten the Biden regime’s excuses for election cheating.

[Noumenon]

“In the end, the gap between reality and ideology meant that the communist parties wound up spouting meaningless slogans they themselves knew made no sense. As the philosopher Roger Scruton argues, Marxism became so cocooned in what George Orwell once called “Newspeak” that it could not be refuted: “Facts no longer made contact with the theory, which had risen above the facts on clouds of nonsense, rather like a theological system. The point was not to believe the theory, but to repeat it ritualistically and in such a way that both belief and doubt became irrelevant… In this way, the concept of truth disappeared from the intellectual landscape, and was replaced by that of power.”
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956, pp 465-466

History is repeating itself in some exceedingly unpleasant ways.

[knarf]

Not to mention the lack of any reporting on yesterday's CYBER SYMPOSIUM .... even here in FR.

[Vaduz]

Social Media Turns Lies into Truth.

It just followed in the foot steps of the news media.

[Cecily]

Boeing, Airbus and the others need to build a little jail cell seat (or two) on all aircraft going forward.

[Cecily]

Sorry, wrong thread.

[rktman]

Still may be a valid point. An airliner brig.