Facebook Fact-Checkers Are Now Dropping by the Comments Sections of Your Posts to Re-Educate You

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PJ Media

Facebook just keeps finding new ways to be awful. The latest stunt is to jump into the comments section of your posts to insert some approved agitprop that stays near the top of your feed.

Olugbemiga referred us to the company’s recent Community Standards Enforcement Report, which explains the new program. According to the report, the effort is “separate” from Facebook’s third-party fact-checking program: “The comments aren’t fact-check ratings. They won’t result in any enforcement penalties for content owners, nor will they impact a post’s distribution or the overall status of a Page.”

Meta says that the comments will “appear on Facebook posts that may not be verifiably false but that people may find misleading.” Newspeak, anyone?

Apparently, Facebook’s shadow warnings, which cover content they don’t like, weren’t working—I mean, it’s human nature to click if Facebook warns you it’s censoring the post—and they’re trying a different tactic: leaving a warning in a user’s comment feed and prioritizing it.