Okay the new line from the Facebook-run fact check crew is that the editorial staffer at The Weekly Standard is actually “independent” of The Weekly’s Standard’s editorial line. Somebody who can make that statement with a straight face now has global censorship powers.https://twitter.com/PCunliffeJones/status/1040522777642577920 …
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Replying to @rmc031
If they’re independent of TWS, what is the point of having a TWS person involved? There’s no shortage of grad students looking for extra money. I rate this rationalization for their cave to conservative pressure as pants on
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This whole fact checker system is a colossal garbage fire and probably needs to be brought down immediately. In 2003 they would have marked everything critical of the Iraq war as false, and they all have "appeal to authority" massive bias and will be pro war in future
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That fact checkers are now fact checking criticism of the fact checking industry tells you everything you need to know. (Spoiler: they find the criticism of themselves false.)
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