The New York Times was skewered Tuesday with a headline about meta fact-checkers fact-checking their own critics.
Meta announces it is ending controversial fact-checking practices and lifting speech restrictions to “restore freedom of expression” across its Facebook, Instagram, and Meta platforms, adding that current content moderation practices are ” He admitted that he had gone too far.
However, its former third-party fact-checking partners pushed back against allegations of bias and censorship in their work. PolitiFact's Aaron Sharrockman slammed the decision in a social media post, saying, “If you're upset that Meta created a censorship tool, you should look in the mirror.”
of new york times published an article about the backlash from fact-checking organizations with the headline, “Meta says fact-checkers were the problem. Fact-checker rules are wrong.” The article stated, “The fact-checking organizations that worked with Meta said they had no role in determining what Meta did with fact-checked content.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 23: The New York Times corporate logo hangs above the front entrance of its headquarters in New York City on October 23, 2018. (Photo by Gary Hershawn/Getty Images) (Photo by Gary Hershawn/Getty Images)
However, users across the X social media platform mocked the headline.
“This actually does an effective job (perhaps coincidentally) of exposing the problems in the fact-checking industry,” said Reason senior editor Robbie Soave.
“Fact Checker's fact check is claiming that fact checker is the problem. That's the real New York Times headline,” said civil liberties attorney Laura Powell. “How can you create satire when legacy media has become so ridiculous?”
“This is surprising. Meta says fact checkers are the problem, but fact checkers are wrong,” Ana Bozovic, founder of Analytics Miami, said in a post. “End of the absurd story. This is a report from the NYT.”
Tech billionaires including Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have supported Trump since his election day victory. (Getty Images)
“They actually wrote this and published it,” marveled Chris Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Molly Z. Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, wrote that the headline was “more than a parody of the New York Times propaganda outlet.”
Political columnist Moshe Hill expressed surprise: “I couldn't believe it wasn't a parody, so I had to look it up myself,” and wrote, “This is real.”
Meteorologist and data scientist John Basham joked that the headline “could easily have been taken from” political satire website Babylon Bee, adding: “Life has become a parody of the left.” .
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FOX News' Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
