Candace Owens wins challenge against ‘communist’ Facebook fact-checker Politifact over Biden post false rating
CANDACE Owens has won a challenge against PolitiFact after the fact-checking website labeled a video she posted as “false" and caused it to be “censored” on Facebook.
The conservative commentator on November 12, which she captioned: “ is literally and legally not the President-elect. So why is the media pretending he is?”
PolitiFact works with Facebook to stop the spread of misinformation.
It slammed ' video with the negative rating, which caused Facebook to then alert users that the content was false.
The pro-Trump pundit on Saturday to celebrate her win, accusing the fact-checking nonprofit of “lying for Democrats.”
“Weeks ago, @Facebook censored a post of mine which truthfully stated that @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect," she wrote.
"So I got lawyers involved. Conclusion? @PolitiFact uncensored the post & admitted that they LIED by rating my post false.
“The fact-checkers are lying for Democrats.”
Owens – who is eight months pregnant – went on to claim she is “taking every measure to fight these communists in the courtroom."
“It is my goal to expose these lying ‘fact-checkers’ one by one. @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect,” .
PolitiFact has since removed the rating and retracted the article explaining why Owens’ video was rated as false.
They also added a correction admitting fault for the “error.”
“Correction: PolitiFact originally labeled this video false in our capacity as a third-party fact-checker for Facebook," the company .
"On Nov. 20, an appeal to that decision was made on behalf of Ms. Owens. PolitiFact approved the appeal on Nov. 20, determined that a correction was appropriate, and removed the false rating."
Owens is set to launch a show with conservative outlet The Daily Wire next year.
She told the outlet she reached out with legal representation to PolitiFact on November 20 and immediately heard back.
Lawyers for PolitiFact allegedly responded to Owens with a statement that the video was obstructed and labeled false from PolitiFact “in error.”
“Upon first glance, this video from Ms. Owens was labeled false from PolitiFact in error," the lawyer said, according to Owens.
"We already have removed the label from the video and you should now be able to see it unobstructed."
The lawyer continued: “As we’re about 25 minutes into this, we still don’t know how or why the post was labeled ‘false.’ We are investigating and hope to share more information with you formally on Monday.”
Other conservatives also celebrated Owens’ win including Benny Johnson, host of the Newsmax show The Benny Report.
“What else are these “Fact Checkers” actually wrong about? Why do they get the unchecked power to selectively Censor posts?” Johnson .
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