{"id":1619683,"date":"2022-08-23T06:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619683"},"modified":"2022-08-23T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:49:11","slug":"how-it-might-have-looked-if-todays-fact-checkers-had-been-able-to-censor-throughout-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-it-might-have-looked-if-todays-fact-checkers-had-been-able-to-censor-throughout-u-s-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How It Might Have Looked If Today&#8217;s &#8220;Fact Checkers&#8221; Had Been Able to Censor Throughout U.S. History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-it-might-have-looked-if-todays-fact-checkers-had-been-able-to-censor-throughout-u-s-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>    Here\u2019s how it might have looked if today\u2019s \u2018fact checkers\u2019 had been able to censor speech throughout U.S. history &#8211; Based Politics<br \/>\n    <meta \/><br \/>\n    <meta content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\" \/>\n    <link rel=\"pingback\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/xmlrpc.php\" \/>\n    <meta content=\"index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1\" \/><\/p>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/2022\/08\/22\/heres-how-it-might-have-looked-if-todays-fact-checkers-had-been-able-to-censor-speech-throughout-u-s-history\/\" \/>\n\t<meta content=\"en_US\" \/><br \/>\n\t<meta content=\"article\" \/><br \/>\n\t<meta content=\"Here\u2019s how it might have looked if today\u2019s \u2018fact checkers\u2019 had been able to censor speech throughout U.S. history\" \/><br \/>\n\t<meta content=\"People spreading misinformation can be dangerous. 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td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-author-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/author\/jack-hunter\/\" title=\"Jack Hunter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jack-Hunter-headshot-1-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Jack Hunter\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-96 alignnone photo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_89 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_89\">\n<p><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2022-08-22T13:24:50-04:00\">August 22, 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_92 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_92\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Last week my friend and BASEDPolitics colleague Hannah Cox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/2022\/08\/19\/facebook-says-posts-without-government-talking-points-are-missing-context\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">criticized<\/span><\/a> Facebook\u2019s \u201cfact checkers\u201d for labeling her posts about the IRS hiring thousands of new agents and targeting the middle class as \u201cmissing context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.34.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.34.34-PM.png 617w, https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.34.34-PM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.34.34-PM-150x94.png 150w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.35.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.35.34-PM.png 619w, https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.35.34-PM-300x61.png 300w, https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-19-at-3.35.34-PM-150x31.png 150w\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What context had Hannah missed? Apparently, she didn\u2019t note that the government is promising us they won\u2019t do any of this. The authority the online speech cops appear to cite is the actually the U.S. federal government itself (lol). Not an entity exactly known to be a beacon of truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The same thing happened to me (again) when I dared to share a post on this subject on Instagram from Rep. Thomas Massie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-7.37.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-7.37.10-PM.png 496w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-7.37.10-PM-267x300-1.png 267w, https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-7.37.10-PM-150x169.png 150w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-7.37.10-PM-300x338-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-7.37.10-PM-373x420-1.png 373w\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Here is a sitting member of Congress, representing his constituents, wondering aloud why the IRS is about to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/money\/irs-audits-poor-taxpayers-easier\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">gear up<\/span><\/a> in more ways <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/03\/why-irs-80b-expansion-is-a-nightmare-for-small-business\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">than one<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is basic political speech. But Facebook calls it misinformation apparently because it falls outside the government\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>WTF<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is mind-blowing in a country like the United States, where encouraging free speech, dissent, and challenging the government has been so crucial in shaping our still relatively young republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One must wonder, what if there had been social media throughout our history? What if there had always been \u201cfact-checkers\u201d like the ones we endure today?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Here\u2019s how some of the <b>most important events and debates in American history MIGHT <\/b>(<i><<< note this word, Facebook police) <\/i><b>have been handled by today\u2019s so-called fact-checkers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>The Vietnam War<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He was a loving dad.<br \/>He also lied to Americans\u2014for years\u2014about the disastrous war he was getting them into in Vietnam.<br \/>How would Craig McNamara made peace with his father?<br \/>One way, for a while, was walnuts.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/URswrYoVTQ\" class=\"stylish-link\">https:\/\/t.co\/URswrYoVTQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Beard (@dabeard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dabeard\/status\/1523170816996769792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"stylish-link\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Imagine some hippy in 1968 speaking out against the escalating U.S. war in Vietnam on his Facebook, only to have \u201cMissing Context\u201d pop up to warn his followers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u2018End the War! Bring our troops home! Screw Johnson!\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Facebook Warning: *Independent fact-checkers* have found that this and similar posts are missing context. The Pentagon and statements by White House officials have suggested that U.S. efforts in this conflict have been productive.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In fact, the war had been going south for many years before the U.S. government would admit it\u2013and it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/09\/us\/pentagon-papers-vietnam-war.html\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">a whistleblower that forced them<\/span><\/a> to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While on that subject\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Edward Snowden reveals illegal mass surveillance by U.S. government<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On this day in 2013, the first batch of NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden to Glenn Greenwald was published in the Guardian, revealing that the NSA collects millions of Verizon customers&#8217; phone records daily. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wx73v2fXim\" class=\"stylish-link\">pic.twitter.com\/wx73v2fXim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacobin (@jacobin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobin\/status\/1401146789865132033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"stylish-link\">June 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2013, when National Security Contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the agency for illegally spying on Americans en masse, the government immediately responded that it wasn\u2019t doing this. They said that no illegal surveillance was taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">President Barack Obama promised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2013\/08\/06\/209692380\/obama-to-leno-there-is-no-spying-on-americans\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">time<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-us-canada-25785954\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">again<\/span><\/a> this wasn\u2019t true. The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper previously testified before Congress that mass collection and surveillance of Americans\u2019 data <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-33a88feb083ea35515de3c73e3d854ad\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">was not taking place<\/span><\/a> (his lie is what prompted Snowden to come forward.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So imagine in 2013, oh I don\u2019t know \u2013 ME \u2013 sharing on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2018We have to end this mass spying on U.S. citizens. It is unconstitutional and un-American.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Facebook Warning: *Independent fact-checkers* have found that this and similar posts are missing context. White House officials and the U.S. intelligence community have assured the public that there is no government program collecting the data of everyday Americans.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2020, a U.S. federal court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-nsa-spying\/u-s-court-mass-surveillance-program-exposed-by-snowden-was-illegal-idUSKBN25T3CK\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">vindicated<\/span><\/a> Snowden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Social Security as Identification<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Before it was enacted in 1935, one of the arguments against Social Security is that many feared it might one day become a national personal identification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So the government made clear on the original cards that it was not to be used for ID:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-8.28.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-8.28.17-PM.png 331w, https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-8.28.17-PM-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-21-at-8.28.17-PM-150x81.png 150w\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/9\/26\/3384416\/social-security-numbers-national-ID-identity-theft-nstic\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">changed<\/span><\/a> in 1972. Now obviously it\u2019s everyone\u2019s identification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Imagine some anti-New Dealer complaining on Facebook in 1934:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u2018I don\u2019t trust the federal government to keep tabs on us all with this worker\u2019s card \u2013 you know FDR\u2019s going to make it into a national ID!\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Facebook Warning: *Independent fact-checkers* have found that this and similar posts are missing context. Roosevelt Administration officials have assured Americans that Social Security will never be used for the purpose of personal identification.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Obamacare<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Barack Obama says Americans were wrong to worry &#8220;they would lose&#8221; their health insurance under Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you like your health care plan, you can keep it&#8221; was the Lie of the Year in 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QCGLgie5WJ\" class=\"stylish-link\">pic.twitter.com\/QCGLgie5WJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1511404931143639045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"stylish-link\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">President Obama made two big promises in the lead up to the Affordable Care Act: Costs were going to go down and you could keep your health plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FACT: Nothing in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Obamacare?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"stylish-link\">#Obamacare<\/a> forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vj44\/status\/394978744227475456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"stylish-link\">October 29, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Costs might have gone down for some but for many, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/health-care-reform\/report\/obamacare-has-doubled-the-cost-individual-health-insurance\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">went up<\/span><\/a>. The Obama administration\u2019s \u201ckeeping your health plan\u201d part was later called Politifact\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2013\/dec\/12\/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">lie of the year<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But imagine a conservative sharing on Facebook in 2009:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u2018I don\u2019t trust this president, I want to keep my doctor and this government is only to make health prices go up!\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Facebook Warning: *Independent fact-checkers* have found that this and similar posts are missing context. Obama Administration officials have assured Americans that they will be able to keep their health plans and their doctors.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For skeptics of this column, some of these examples might seem silly and far-fetched. But with Facebook fact-checkers framing Hannah Cox, Congressman Massie and others\u2019 questioning of a pending law in a way that comports with the official government line\u2026 it\u2019s not far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s happening right now. These few examples of what this might have looked like in the past are off the top of my head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The COVID-19 pandemic kicked much of this \u201cfact-checking\u201d craze into high gear, and playing devil\u2019s advocate, there are certainly good arguments to be made about wanting the public to make healthy decisions in such turbulent times (though using the Center for Disease Control as the exclusive guide turned out to be extremely problematic. In retrospect, someone needed to fact-check them. Daily.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But now we can\u2019t even question the IRS?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I am a free speech absolutist. Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/2022\/01\/29\/ira-glasser-on-bill-maher-ex-aclu-head-blasts-orgs-partisan-decline\/\" class=\"stylish-link\"><span class=\"s1\">old school ACLU<\/span><\/a>. I\u2019m an actual liberal on this issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If Hannah or Rep. Massie said they were aliens sent from Mars by their god Zeus on a mission to prove the world was flat, they should be allowed to say it. We can all also have opinions on it. That\u2019s how free markets work, even the market of ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">None of this is an exact science. Discourse is, by its nature, messy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The spread of misinformation has been a societal problem since the beginning of human communication\u2014but much of the spread of disinformation has been done by the government and politicians. Their word should hardly be the measurement by which \u201cfact-checkers\u201d evaluate content. Major communication platforms of our time insisting that the only public discourse allowed must follow government dictums and guidelines is something very new and troubling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">People spreading misinformation can be dangerous. Helping the government silence anyone who challenges it is infinitely more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Like this article? 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