CNN media analyst Brian Stelter offered a terrible tweet on Mark Zuckerberg firing his “fact checkers. They were comparing themselves to….firefighters. In the midst of the L.A. wildfires:
“Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department.” https://t.co/eEcDL8ocr4
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 13, 2025
It came in a story by Donie O’Sullivan, who is sometimes called “Irish Brian Stelter” at the MRC. This was the headline: “Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories”. But which “fact checkers” are letting their writers go? This only means Meta no longer needs their service, not that all the fact-checkers are unemployed. This was the crazy line:
“Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department,” said Alan Duke, a…
