yeah so now it's time following on from that in the wide discussion of facts and logic and other such things to address the fact checkers and ask ourselves who's fact checking the fact checkers now this is something i think that would be us actually at this point us and other such people online because the uh mainstream media is not going to necessarily be doing it to themselves anytime soon so recently in the last month uh this article came out from the daily mail a few outlets reported on it that the facebook fact checkers could be politically could be just a little bit just a hint that they could be politically biased themselves admitted by facebook's vice president nick clegg and isn't it interesting as carl and i have discussed before isn't it interesting how a high-level british politician ended up in a high-level private position within facebook that means that there might be a little bit of political overlap between goals going on there it's almost like facebook is developing itself into some kind of multinational country in a way it could be uh i believe a famous political thinker theorist almost from the early early NUMBER_TOKENth century said that uh private and public becomes corporatist which could be another word to describe fascism but that's just an offhand remark it doesn't mean anything don't worry guys so this article states facebook announced fact-checking measures in NUMBER_TOKEN amid claims to its failure to remove misleading content help to swing that year's u.s presidential election in favor of donald trump because purely having donald trump be elected in the first place was a sin in and of itself according to these people and here's another question when they brought up this claim did anybody fact check that in the first place reasonably speaking because we all remember around NUMBER_TOKEN always as you said russian collusion fact checkers need to come in so that we can make sure that we're not spreading misinformation did anybody check in the first place that misinformation was what caused the election of donald trump or just that people liked him and voted for him on the basis of his personality and policies but that's a different question the measures which allow users to alert facebook to content they believed to be fake was applauded by many but critics decried the intervention warning facebook would rely on left-wing fact-checkers since then facebook has been accused of suppressing legitimate stories and stifling public debates so because it has yes we can see there that as always the soothsayers were out in force with their accurate predictions oh gosh facebook vice president nick clegg has admitted that the company's fact checkers employed to root out alleged fake news from its social media platforms could be could be biased and pursuing their own political agendas according to a european commissioned document under its fact-checking scheme facebook uses a network of NUMBER_TOKEN organizations across the world including three in the uk to flag up misinformation on its platforms and i imagine these are probably similar networks used by other social media companies are we talking places like uh hope not hate and that sort of thing and the uh anti-defamation yeah the adl probably places like that the sorts of places that still believe that this means white supremacy uh stories deemed false or misleading are not removed from the site but flagged to users via a series of warning labels we've
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