Fact Cleaners

Leftists freak out over Facebook getting rid of fact checkers:

Yes, we should be wary of Zuckerberg’s transformation into a red-pilled believer in free speech, but maybe — just maybe — this is who he really is. Maybe Trump’s reelection triumph in the face of 100 percent media opposition showed Zuckerberg that the media’s hold on power is an illusion. Maybe Elon Musk thriving in the face of 100 percent media opposition drove the point home again. Whatever his intentions, Zuckerberg had a clear choice between MAGA and the legacy media, and he not only chose MAGA, he called the media and their fake fact-checkers “censors” and “biased” and announced a total end to their influence on Facebook and Instagram, two of the most powerful communication tools ever created. So, of course, the fascists at PolitiFact are butthurt. No more can they tell a billion-plus Facebook and Instagram users that lies are truth. No more can they intimidate Normal People from speaking a truth or floating a crazy idea (Biden’s dementia) that might actually turn out to be true. No more can they control the debate, the questions asked, or what we as free people wish to discuss and how we wish to discuss it. PolitiFact and their big daddy backers at the fascist Poynter do not give a damn about democracy or free speech. What they want is to empower the state by disempowering the individual’s right to be an individual. .... No one’s watching CNN or MSNBC. The Washington Post is collapsing. The New York Times is beholden to its far-left subscribers and lives in that echo chamber. The Los Angeles Times is openly courting Trump supporters. And now, Xwitter, Facebook, and Instagram — the public square — are free of the legacy media’s evil and corrupt influence. If villains like PolitiFact can no longer control how we talk to one another online, they have nothing.

And are out of a job...