Facebook versus the BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

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[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Facebook Fact Checker: British Medical Journal? What is that? It sounds fake! Britain isnt even a place! There an be no medicine in a place that doesnt exist and there cant be a journal in a place that doesnt exist either!

[–]zyxzevn[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The first line of the article:

The BMJ has locked horns with Facebook and the gatekeepers of international fact checking after one of its investigations was wrongly labelled with “missing context” and censored on the world’s largest social network. Rebecca Coombes and Madlen Davies report

So they are fighting with each other. Fakebook against the English Medical scientitsts.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Good. Facebook has been overstepping the censorship bounds for quite some time, and it makes sense the only way they'd actually be held accountable is if they censored someone powerful and pissed them off. Hopefully they'll have so many of these types of cases that their company will implode.

[–]yabbit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I like mark zuckerburg