Posted on 09/24/2021 11:31:51 AM PDT by Black Conservative Voice
Former TV journalist John Stossel has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Facebook seeking at least $2 million in damages, alleging that the company defamed him by adding “fact-check” labels to two videos he posted related to climate change. After Facebook’s labels, the lawsuit claims “his viewership plummeted due to both Facebook’s censorship and the reputational harm caused by the false labels.”
Variety reports that former TV journalist John Stossel is suing tech giant Facebook for defamation, seeking at least $2 million in damages after Facebook added fact-checking labels to two videos Stossel posted relating to climate change. A Facebook spokesperson told Variety in a statement: “We believe this case is without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously against the allegations.”
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I posted a satirical text on facebook and they put the “partially false” message over it.
I kid you not. Satire that is “partially false”!
Pretty funny.
That’s what happens when you mistake a coyote to one of the domesticated pets.
I posted a satirical text on facebook and they put the “partially false” message over it.
I kid you not. Satire that is “partially false”!
Pretty funny.
BTW, “...Meanwhile, his viewership plummeted due to both Facebook’s censorship and the reputational harm caused by the false labels.”
That claim has to be made or he really has no case. If there was no harm, there was no foul.
The really funny part about all of this is that ALL news stories are partially false. Every. Single. One.
Yep. If your gonna mock pro wrestling you better do it by long distance phone call. Lol!
Some vile leftist weasel thought he was pretty funny. Stossel isn’t sitting down for it. Hope he takes the FB shytheads to the cleaners.
Any kind of “fact check” or other commentary makes them publishers. Everyone can sue.
Since anyone can make a living off social media “influencing”, just about anyone can show damages if they tried.
...just about anyone can show damages if they tried.
He may end up owning a social media company.
Didn’t Andy Kaufman also learn that the hard way?
Facebook Fact-Check’ is like trying to spin straw into gold.
Actually Kaufman and Jerry Lawler were both in on the gag....even though Lawler did put Kaufman in the hospital with a piledriver.
When Lawler visited Kaufman in the hospital the first thing Kaufmann said was “we got ‘em” LoL!
This will be interesting if actual climate change gets put on trial.. which he will have to do to prove he was wrongly censored.
I posted a video by former Navy surgeon Dr Lee Merritt.
Facebook flagged it.
“Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine Program Has NOT Killed More Active-Duty Military Than The Virus”
Problem is, though Dr Merritt said how many service people died from COVID last year, she never mentioned anymore deaths happening.
In other words, Dr Merritt never claimed what Facebook claimed she claimed.
People take facebook fact checks seriously? That’s the biggest partisan joke going!
Someone mentioned on another thread that getting people to quit FB, Twitter etc. is pointless and that they’d have to be sued into submission. I dropped both of my accounts.
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