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Danny Johnston Conservative-libertarian journalist John Stossel suing Facebook for two million dollars is a good start — but only a start.
Variety reported late last week that the popular TV and internet personality seeks damages of no less than $2 million for defamtion via the company’s fact-checking system.
The suit, filed in the Northern District of California court by Dhillon Law Group, asks: Do Facebook and its vendors defame a user who posts factually accurate content, when they publicly announce that the content failed a “fact-check” and is “partly false,” and by attributing to the user a false claim that he never made? “The answer,” the suit states, “is yes.”
Stossel and his attorneys argue that “Facebook and its ‘fact-check’ vendors are currently serving as judge, jury, and executioner regarding whether users are on the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ side of a complex scientific debate.”
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The suit involves two climate change videos that caught the ire of Facebook’s fact-checkers: In one video, “Government Fueled Fires,” about the 2020 wildfires in California, Facebook and its fact-checking partners “falsely attributed to Stossel a claim he never made, and on that basis flagged the content as ‘misleading’ and ‘missing context,’ so that would-be viewers would be routed to the false attribution statement.” The complaint says that Stossel’s video “explored a scientific hypothesis” that “while climate change undoubtedly contributes to forest fires, it was not the primary cause of the 2020 California fires.” Per the suit, Stossel says he never made the claim that “Forest fires are caused by poor management. Not by climate change,” which was in Facebook’s fact-check. Stossel’s suit says Facebook uses “the pretext of a ‘fact-check’ to affix disparaging labels to the content, or to expressly mischaracterize the content,” even when they know the content is not untrue.
Furthermore, there is “no meaningful avenue to contest these unilateral decisions” and that Facebook “refused to correct their speech, and intentionally left the false attribution online for anyone to see.”
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