Because, once again, only right-wing thought is ever truly ever ‘true’ or ‘factual’ by default, and anything contrary to that must be the worst lies from the pits of hell:

2. First, as a reminder, Facebook worked with an independent third party to validate their facts checkers.

They assessed the Weekly Standards and found THEY DID NOT QUALIFY

Facebook accepted them as a fact checker anywayhttps://t.co/hQjobT2Ebg

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 11, 2018

4. The Weekly Standard “fact checked” the piece and deemed it false

BUT THE FACT CHECK DOES NOT EVEN CONSIDER IAN’S ARGUMENT. IT TOTALLY IGNORES IT AND FOCUSES ON AN EMAIL THAT WAS NOT AT ALL THE POINT OF IAN’S PIECEhttps://t.co/bqMQAw4wNo

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 11, 2018

6. Relatedly, Facebook hired John Kyl, the former Senator who was shepherding Kavanaugh through Congress to study “political bias” on its platform.

(He has since been appointed a Senator again, replacing the late John McCain)

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 11, 2018

8. Zuckerberg doesn’t want to be an arbiter of truth so he has outsourced the job to the Weekly Standard. What a joke.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 11, 2018

Facebook has blatantly taken a side, masquerading it as objective fact checking. All because of one other outlet’s say-so.

Again, conservative thought is treated as the one sole truth, and anything on the liberal side of things is treated like a lie out of the gate, hyper-scrutinized, and still treated like suspect bullshit even when proven factual. They’ve been gift-wrapped the very concept of ‘true’, gifted a monopoly of ‘truth’ while peddling bad faith falsehoods out of their ass. And fighting back against it seems to just cause outlets like Facebook to hunker down even more, treat us with even more contempt and hide even further behind the reputations of places like the Weekly Standard the entire while.

Fuck everything….

EDIT: Reordered the tweets, since I didn’t realize the embeds would work without being the initially linked tweet now.