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Political commentator Candace Owens challenged a “false” rating from a third-party Facebook fact-checker and she won.
Earlier this month, Owens announced that she was taking legal action against the fact-checkers used by social media platforms. Owens brought the case because she became tired of being censored on Twitter and Facebook by third-party fact-checkers, as well as seeing fellow conservatives being silenced on social media.
Owens retained a pair of lawyers to represent her in the lawsuit, including attorney Todd McMurtry, who was part of the legal team representing former Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann. Owens is reportedly suing fact-checkers from USA Today and Lead Stories, according to the Daily Wire.
“It is time to fact-check the fact-checkers,” Owens said. “I’m going to put these suckers through discovery and figure out what the relationship is that they have with Facebook.”
Guess what?! I am OFFICIALLY suing the “Fact-Checkers” who are really just activists. https://t.co/nvLBLZaQEH https://t.co/UGbJzMrMk0
— Candace Owens (@Candace Owens)1604623964.0
Owens launched a website titled “Fact-Check Zuck,” which says, “Our freedoms are being stripped away. The overlords of Big Tech are determining what Americans can and cannot say, share, like, and post.”
“Support our legal efforts today as we fight back against Facebook’s fact-checkers, confronting those who are suppressing free speech, thought, and expression across our great country,” the site says.
“I wanted to show that these fact-checkers just lie, and they usually go unchecked because most people don’t have the money, don’t have the time, and don’t have the platform to go after them — and I have all three,” Owens said.
Owens celebrated her first victory in the case against the social media behemoths on Saturday.
“Weeks ago, @Facebook censored a post of mine which truthfully stated that @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect,” Owens wrote on Saturday. “So I got lawyers involved. Conclusion? @PolitiFact uncensored the post & admitted that they LIED by rating my post false. The fact-checkers are lying for Democrats.”
“At 8 Months pregnant, I unfortunately cannot fight on the ground alongside patriots like I am used to, but I am taking every measure to fight these communists in the court room,” the conservative firebrand added. “It is my goal to expose these lying ‘fact-checkers’ one by one. @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect.”
At 8 Months pregnant, I unfortunately cannot fight on the ground alongside patriots like I am used to, but I am tak… https://t.co/t4ItNav6ri
— Candace Owens (@Candace Owens)1606578390.0
PolitiFact issued a correction and removed the false rating.
“Correction: PolitiFact originally labeled this video false in our capacity as a third-party fact-checker for Facebook,” PolitiFact wrote on Facebook on Nov. 25. “On Nov. 20, an appeal to that decision was made on behalf of Ms. Owens. PolitiFact approved the appeal on Nov. 20, determined that a correction was appropriate, and removed the false rating.”
Owens argued that Joe Biden is not technically the president-elect as of yet, he was only named as the president-elect by media outlets, which is not authorized to name the president-elect. Biden is projected to be the winner of the 2020 presidential election, but the president-elect will not officially be named until the Electoral College cast its votes on Dec. 14, once all states have officially certified their results.
President Donald Trump is currently challenging the results in the election and has filed several lawsuits in critical swing states.
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Kudos to the great Candace Owens. She is energetic, smart , correct and beautiful. JUST the kind of Conservative that the left HATES. I hope she seeks VP in 2024. I’D VOTE FOR HER! I too faced shadow banning on, FOXNEWS .COM “Conversation” section… no less! I can see my posts, but, no one else could! I had 6k posts and 36k replies {No exactly disregarded} ABRUPTLY ENDED ON 5 Nov! no warning; no complaint; no nothing! STILL OFF! The Leftists have taken over THERE TOO!
Just an ALL American Girl. And; Mom!
May God Bless her and keep her.
You go girl! Keep it up!
Will they apply this correction to others who made the same factual statement and got accused of making a false statement?
She was not the only one I saw state the fact that we do not have a president elect until the electoral college votes.
Some even pointed out the fact that Trump’s current presidential term does not end until January yet we see the media and others acting as if Biden was supposed to already be transitioning into the white house and taking over the second the media made its prediction.
Only to have these 3rd party fact checkers claim it was false information.
I think that it is high time that the news media GET OUT OF POLITICS and only report the FACTS, NOT THIER OPINON!
Amen. But they won’t unless force to do so.
Amen. But they won’t unless force to do so.
PolitFact lied? Gasp!
That comes as ZERO surprise to me. I mean, I’d sooner believe my father had come back from the dead than believe PolitFact willingly said something politically true.
They issued a correction, but didn’t apologize. They just said “An appeal was made and we approved it.” Which means that even if they were lying and didn’t approve it, they’d still call it FALSE. That’s not an apology, that’s “Lawyers were sicced on our lying asses, so we have to try and save face.”