Zuckerberg is Right and "Fact Checking" is Censorship

All around the left-verse I'm seeing calls for Facebook and other social media to have "Fact Checking."

As if such a thing were possible.

As if such a thing does not already have a long history of abuse.  In just the last few years, we've seen both Facebook and Twitter outsource "fact checking" to the likes of The Atlantic Council, a shill for NATO.

Zukerberg is absolutely correct in arguing for free speech, and letting the reader determine what the facts are.

He's wrong in that Facebook has already done quite a bit of this, at one time disempowering 100's of leftist and antiwar Facebook accounts.  They get rid of one right wing Alex Jones (good riddance) and then 100's of lefty sites are caught in the same elite-powered scam.  I think many of the disempowered sites may have gotten restoration...but I have not seen the full story yet.

Update: FAIR reports a barely reported story about British Psyop officer working at Twitter, and also that Facebook has partnered with The Weekly Standard (a conservative newspaper that heavily promoted the bogus story about Iraq having ties to Al Qaeda) for fact checking purposes.  Last year Facebook started working with the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute as well as the pro-NATO Atlantic Council.

THIS IS ALWAYS THE WAY IT WORKS, AND WHY THERE MUST NOT BE CENSORSHIP!

The powerful will always enforce their point of view through censorship.  Any "facts" that they don't like are non-facts.  Any fabrications are mirages that they do like, are Facts.  They may also throw in a few more actual Facts to make it look good.

If you would seek the truth, you MUST read fully opposing viewpoints from their own mastheads.  And if either one of those is censored, or even mincing words to avoid censorship, it is not their full story, so your attempt to find the truth will be offset.

Zuckerberg's argument was long ago made by one of the wisest of all, Judge Brandeis.  And many more.

Meanwhile, we can look around at the calls for censorship and see who are not the good and wise people.

Right now, in case you had any doubt, a cheerleader for the New Cold War, US Imperialism, and Censorship, is DailyKOS.  I can hardly read their daily list anymore it's so full of crap.  Tweeters I follow have never had any doubt, going back at least to 2016 when they were endlessly trashing Bernie.  Still, many of my friends love it because it appears to be so anti-Trump.  Appearances can be deceiving.

Right along with them Dissent Magazine.  They were always somewhat marginally left, and some have long called them an Imperial Shill (for example, for all the negative stories about Cuba, and Bolivarian countries).