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In a rare Q and A session with reporters, Joe Biden was asked his opinion of Meta’s abandonment of third-party “fact checkers.”
President Biden slammed Meta on Friday for ending its third-party fact-checking program, arguing that the change goes against American values and is “shameful.”
“The whole idea of walking away from facts checking [sic] as well as not reporting anything having to do with, uh, um, discrimination regarding TPS I find to be just contrary to American justice,” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question about Meta’s recent policy shift.
Fact checking: it’s “American justice!” If, like me, you were mystified by Biden’s reference to TPS:
It’s unclear what the 82-year-old president was referring to when he suggested Meta was not reporting discrimination “regarding TPS,” an acronym for the Temporary Protected Status program offered to foreign nationals from certain countries.
So that’s the acronym, but it still doesn’t make any sense. More:
“I don’t know what that’s all about,” he added. “It’s just completely contrary to everything America’s about.”
Censorship–it’s the American way!
The president fumed that “a billionaire can buy something and say, ‘By the way, from this point on, we’re not going to, we’re not going to fact check anything.’”
Obviously, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t buy Meta, he founded it.
You could chalk this up to Biden’s senility, but the fact is that he speaks for the Democratic Party. All the Democrats I know of are bemoaning the demise of “fact checking” on Facebook. Of course, the Democrats love “fact checking” only because substantially all the fact checkers were Democrats. If there were a system in place to suppress or delete all the lies told by Joe Biden and his ilk, they would be outraged.
January 20 can’t come too soon.