Facebook Fact Checks Were Never Going to Save Us. They Just Made Liberals Feel Better.
Facebook Fact Checks Were Never Going to Save Us. They Just Made Liberals Feel Better.
Billionaires gonna billionaire — and lick the boots of whoever will bring them more riches and impunity.
The end of the fact check era is worth examining because of how it heralds another liberal failure with little to offer in the way of alternatives. It is just another capitulation in the battle against fascism. Liberals, it turned out, were never really the “resistance” that they pretended they were.
In 2021, in response to Trump’s role in the January 6 Capitol attack, Meta banned the then-president from its platforms. Around that time, over 800 QAnon conspiracy groups were also removed from Facebook. Social media censorship became a hot button for the grievance-driven Trump and his far right.
None of the right-wing’s agenda, however, was about free speech for all. Consider that, at the same time, the right was rallying behind book bans in schools. They didn’t utter a peep when, as The Intercept reported in 2020, dozens of left-wing and antifascist groups were also banned from Facebook. And Meta has been engaging in what Human Rights Watch called “systematic and global” censorship of Palestinian and Palestine-solidarity content on its platforms. Nonetheless, the right has successfully created a victim narrative out of content moderation.
Enter Zuckerberg and the utter lack of subtlety in his announcement. These new policies were clearly not meant to serve the political left or censored pro-Palestinian users. “We’re getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate,” Zuckerberg said, issuing a thinly veiled signal that anti-trans, anti-immigrant hate would face fewer roadblocks.
The end of the fact check era is worth examining because of how it heralds another liberal failure with little to offer in the way of alternatives. It is just another capitulation in the battle against fascism. Liberals, it turned out, were never really the “resistance” that they pretended they were.
- Fascists do fascist things
- LIBERAL FAILURE! CAPITULATION!
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Dude, took the words right out of my mouth. Any excuse to blame "liberals" rather than the actual fascists. "But the liberals enable the fascists!!?" Fuck right off. I live in Texas, and my circles are predominantly college-educated, white, and middle-class (whatever that means today). We are the epitome of the liberal constituency, and there isn't a single goddamn person I know who would've voted for Trump over Bernie Sanders. All these cynical motherfuckers saying "liberal failure!!" are mistaking corruption and incompetence among the Democratic Party leadership for a coherent political philosophy.
I… don’t think you know what Liberal means.
In pre-WWII Germany, socialists were the only ones willing to actively fight the fascists in the streets. The liberal papers, the largest of which was Jewish-owned, would consistently label the socialists as violent and immature. They were falling over themselves trying to remain “nonbiased” while the wolf was quite literally at the door.
The New York Times, if you’ll remember, printed a ton of information about WMD from incredibly shady sources in the lead-up to the second Iraq war. They were instrumental in garnering liberal support for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. And they’ve never once owned up to that.
“Liberals” are just as interested in maintaining the status quo and they always have been. They just do it in a way that gives people the warm fuzzies and makes them feel good about themselves.
Bernie was a progressive. A socialist. Progressives we can work with. Liberals are like the shortcut that never gets you where you’re trying to go. And yes, they are more often than not fascist apologists.
You have failed to read the article. The censorship of topics such as Palestine happened under the Democrats.
Moderates are always first against the wall no matter which side wins
They’ve been weaponized to push propaganda plenty of times. Especially for Israel.
Well since they censor posts that don't align with their views, these 'fact checks' have as little value as the shit on the soles of my shoes.
Oh look, it's the intercept blaming dems and liberals for what fascists and Republicans do. Never seen that before!
Lol, why are you on Facebook? That is the much better question.