Thread by @JuddLegum

1. Facebook's "fact checking" system is a farce.

It's purpose is not to check facts -- it's to appease the right wing.

That's why they made THE WEEKLY STANDARD, a partisan right-wing magazine and official fact checker

It's going very poorly

2. First, as a reminder, Facebook worked with an independent third party to validate their facts checkers.

They assessed the Weekly Standards and found THEY DID NOT QUALIFY

Facebook accepted them as a fact checker anyway

goo.gl/5yJPui

3. Over the weekend, @imillhiser of ThinkProgress wrote a piece about the implication of Kavanaugh embracing the Glucksberg test.

Kavanaugh said in a 2017 that Roe would fail the Glucksberg test

Ian is a lawyer and it's a sophisticated legal argument

goo.gl/VJ7GLD

4. The Weekly Standard "fact checked" the piece and deemed it false

BUT THE FACT CHECK DOES NOT EVEN CONSIDER IAN'S ARGUMENT. IT TOTALLY IGNORES IT AND FOCUSES ON AN EMAIL THAT WAS NOT AT ALL THE POINT OF IAN'S PIECE

goo.gl/jyLQbN

5. Now because a hack at a right-wing magazine has decided he doesn't like this article, Facebook is telling every user who encounters it that it is "false"

6. Relatedly, Facebook hired John Kyl, the former Senator who was shepherding Kavanaugh through Congress to study "political bias" on its platform.

(He has since been appointed a Senator again, replacing the late John McCain)

7. More on how Facebook and rest of Silicon Valley is bending over backwards for the right-wing here: goo.gl/Tw7Pza

8. Zuckerberg doesn't want to be an arbiter of truth so he has outsourced the job to the Weekly Standard. What a joke.