Posted on 08/21/2022 9:48:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Facebook has deployed one of its infamous ‘fact checkers’ to suggest that the completely accurate claim that the IRS is seeking to arm more agents to use deadly force was “partly false information.”
Earlier this month, an IRS job posting was uncovered that announced the agency was looking to hire people who are ready to kill.
The job ad listed one of the “major duties” of IRS agents to be able to “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”
The IRS subsequently deleted the job posting after it stoked controversy, but then a 2021 IRS annual report also came to light which showed heavily armed agents simulating an assault on a suburban home as part of their training.
When the Heritage Foundation and Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) posted about the issue on Facebook, the Big Tech giant, relying on a ‘fact check’ carried out by Lead Stories, slapped a warning label on posts that said they constituted “partly false information.”
Fact checks have the effect of basically blacklisting content on Facebook, burying it in the algorithm and preventing large numbers of people from viewing the content.
‘Fact Check: IRS Is NOT Trying To Arm All Its Agents’ shouted the headline of the article by Lead Stories.
However, as Christina Maas notes, “The Heritage Foundation never said the IRS was arming all of its agents.”
“In its article, Lead Stories singles out pro-liberty youth organization Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). The youth group posted a screenshot of the original job posting, and wrote: “The IRS is hiring! The government wants its IRS agents armed and its citizens disarmed. We’ll let everyone just marinate on that for a second.”
“Lead Stories tried to make it look like YAL said the IRS is arming all of its employees. “Is the IRS trying to arm all its employees?” asked Lead Stories. “No, that’s not true: A job posting from the IRS Criminal Investigation unit, which carries firearms, does refer to carrying firearms.”
As ever, fact checkers pedantically select a piece of language that was used (or not even used at all in this case) which might be slightly exaggerated to then declare that the entire story is “false information,” when it isn’t, it’s overwhelmingly true information.
As we previously highlighted, fact checkers used by Facebook previously declared the Hunter Biden laptop story to be “Russian disinformation.”
We also reported on how 11 ‘fact checkers’ are demanding that YouTube censor more videos for “misinformation,” with one of the reasons being that no one is content produced by fact checker groups.
Back in June, USA Today, which is used as a ‘fact checker’ by social media platforms, was forced to delete 23 articles from its website after an investigation found one of its reporters had fabricated sources.
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I was off FB for around 6 months, but had to log in to see a video someone posted. First thing in my face was a blocked meme I had posted for “misinformation” Watched the video and haven’t been back
Pencil necked wimp facing an invasion of the Facebook offices by armed IRS agents: “Hey, you guys were supposed to be a fake news myth like the Easter Bunny. You aren’t going to actually shoot me are y——” (weapon fire erupts)
I, naturally, am not on Facebook.
What I hate is the religious groups, publishers, even conservatives say “this article is available in full on our Facebook page” and “find us on Facebook.”
So they accept the boot of the Commie censors on their necks. Feh.
Farcebook wanted me to “prove” that Pinky Boa is my Boa’s “real name” and provide a driver’s license for evidence.
Yes, that IS his name and he doesn’t even have ARMS, let alone the ability to drive a car.
It's not going very well.
I posted a pic of a stadium that was full that held 86000 people. It said that it was not large enough to hold the 87000 agents that Biden is hiring. They censored it saying it lacked context.What context? It is a simple face that the stadium will not hold 87000 people.
It’s probably the difficulty of parallel parking.
“I’m sorry, but you failed - you need to be within one foot of the curb.”
“What’s a foot?”
On you tube there was a news story of the IRS recruiting folks putting some young adults through a mock arrest.
The subject of the arrest was not an Al Capone type.
It was some landscaper that had bought a couple of trucks and did not have the proper reporting of the expenses and profit regarding their purchase.
[maybe snakes are metric?]
Starting to think “context” is code for “lies”.
Thats what I said when I first saw this.
They never said “ALL” agents.
The self-anointed “fact checkers” are deliberately spreading false information by lying about what others said and then attscking the falsified statement.
Its called a Strawman Argument. I should know, people on this site pull it on me all the dam time.
Why is James Carville in your car?
OK, that’s funny right there.
Too bad making fun of the Facebook administrators gets you nothing.
Hey now!
There’s no cause for insulting my decent, upright snek like that!
The annoying thing is that Pinky habitually leaves the turn signal on.
After two dozen 3-day suspensions, and about ten 30-day suspensions, Fascistbook outright banned me over a 4-year-old meme that doesn’t actually show what the meme suggests!
I’m really heartbroken over it...can you tell?!?
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