Facebook labelled one of my articles "false information" and threatened to punish @reason because of it. So I contacted the third-party fact checker, Science Feedback. They admitted they screwed up (!) and changed their evaluation. Bizarre.
reason.com/2021/12/29/fac…
reason.com/2021/12/29/fac…
I will freely admit that going full Karen was a more viable option for me than most people: I have contacts at Facebook, I've interviewed people who work there for a book, etc. What worked in my case might not work more generally.
Importantly, the fact-checker that screwed this up—Science Feedback—is the same group that wrongly labeled a @JohnStossel video as misleading and partly false. He is now suing.
In both my case, and Stossel's, Science Feedback didn't just state an opinion about our claims—they misattributed quotes to us that we did not actually say. Stossel argues this isn't just bad, it's defamation.
Facebook should probably stop relying on a fact-checker that serially misquotes the people its scrutinizing! Seems bad! reason.com/2021/12/29/fac…
I don't think scrapping Section 230 is a good way to solve this—and would in fact worsen the problem. But it is a problem. Facebook should hold its fact-checkers accountable for such blatant errors. I explain on today's episode of Rising.
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