Fact checker
A fact checker is a third party individual or organisation that is used to review content on Facebook. All fack-checkers are certified through the International Fact-Checking Network.[1]
In a court filing from November 21, 2021 on page 24 of 32, the following can be found:
"First, Meta is alleged only to have superimposed a fact-check label on the Fire Video, describing Climate Feedback’s conclusion that the video was “missing context.” Stossel does not claim that label is actionably false—presumably because it is protected opinion. The conclusion that the video was “missing context” is necessarily a judgment call, one that is “not capable of verification or refutation by means of objective proof."
Thus Meta, the company behind Facebook, openly admits that so called "fact checks" are in fact opinion pieces. The name "fact checker" is thus wildly misleading.
External Links
- Facebook Fact Checks the Fact Checkers, The Feminist Remake of 1984 | HBR News 336, a Honey Badger Radio episode where this is discussed
- That episode's sources on Patreon
- https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/09/bombshell-in-court-filing-facebook-admits-fact-checks-are-nothing-more-than-opinion/