Fact Checkers – omniscient purveyors of divine wisdom or fallible humans with potentially preloaded biases?

And has the term “misinformation” come to be less about truth and more about “information we don’t want you to hear”?  Are some truths okay but other truths not okay?  If so, who gets to decide that?

In the Open Letter from The BMJ to Facebook linked above, The BMJ calls out Facebook for labelling one of its articles as “missing context” even though it was thoroughly reviewed and provides credible evidence to support a whistleblower’s claim that the integrity of one of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine trials was questionable, to say the least.

Well what’s the big deal?  So what if an article gets classified as “false” or as “misinformation” or as “missing context”, readers can still choose to read it.

True.  But when any piece of information gets branded by fact checkers as false, it has essentially become a death sentence for that info.  When an article gets this black mark of death, it signals to the reader that the info is wrong and not worth their time.  So readers have been conditioned to simply pass over content labeled as false without second thought, and the content thus sits idle.  It doesn’t get read, even if the information is true and seemingly important.

By design, we are driven away from content that could expose uncomfortable truths and damage the credibility of the official narrative.  Like kids playing hide-and-seek, if you’re close to finding the hider, but his buddy says, “No no, don’t look there, he’s not there I promise,” chances are you’re on the right path.

Why should money-driven organizations be entrusted with deciding what we can or cannot access?  Why should Facebook, or Twitter, or the Government, or any individual be the gatekeepers and key masters of information?  How can we trust that these profit-seeking institutions aren’t strategically withholding and releasing information for their own benefit?  Driving us to lanes that ultimately end with their monetary gain and competitive advantage.

What do you think?

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