Facebook Is Fact-Checking Conservative Sites into Oblivion

This is a very important story to understand because Facebook, et. al., have found a new tool to destroy alternative media: ‘fact checking.’ Facebook’s third-party fact checkers hardly know one end of truth from the other, but they make hard assertions in spite of it.  ⁃ TN EditorFacebook announced last year that they will be using third-party fact-checkers to root out “fake news” on their platform. At the time of the announcement, conservatives sounded t