Saw this mid-week and got a big ol' belly laugh:
As Twitchy reported yesterday, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some pretty big waves across both social and traditional media when he announced that his social media sites -- Facebook, Instagram, and Threads -- would no longer be employing 'fact-checkers' to play Ministry of Truth over content that gets posted to those platforms. While most people (well, sane people, anyway) regarded this as a positive sign, it was also met with skepticism, particularly from those who were banned from Facebook for COVID 'misinformation,' or reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story, or even just those people who remember the overt election interference in the 2020 election through 'Zuckerbucks.'
Maybe the funniest reaction, however, came from the 'fact-checkers' themselves, who were not informed in advance of this decision and proceeded to throw a hissy fit about getting the boot from policing our freedom of speech. The executive director of PolitiFact, one of the biggest fake 'fact-checking operations running, was particularly amusing in his denials that PolitiFact had anything to do with censorship on Facebook. The story truly took a hysterical turn for the surreal, however, when The New York Times got a hold of it last night. In what was perhaps one of the least self-aware and unintentionally hilarious headlines of all time, the Gray Lady performed an enormous face plant in front of the world.
Take a look:
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/01/08/gigantic-face-plant-new-york-times-headline-on-metas-fact-checkers-is-unintentional-hilarity-n2406284?
