Tag: Babylon Bee and fact-checking

influence of political bias in media reporting and its impact on democracy

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 8, 2025

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media

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Facebook Fact-checkers, Facing Doom, Call Urgent Meeting

_{One possible interpretation is that Zuckerberg was as afraid of these freelance censors as anyone else and saw a chance to neutralize the threat} _{Denyse O'Leary
January 8, 2025

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Censorship, Social Media}

Seth Dillon notes that the goal of fact-checking isn’t to eliminate misinformation but dissent, to make it impossible to challenge preferred narratives.