Internet Roasts New York Times Headline Over Fact Checkers’ Decision. Meta’s criticism of fact-checking is ‘wrong’: ‘Beyond parody’

The New York Times came under fire Tuesday for a headline about Meta fact-checkers fact-checking their own reviews.

Meta announced that it would end its controversial fact-checking practices and lift speech restrictions to “restore free speech” to the Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting that its current content moderation practices have “gone too far”.

But former third-party fact-checking partners have pushed back against allegations of bias and censorship in their work. PolitiFact’s Aaron Sharockman blasted the decision in a social media post, saying, “If Meta is upset about creating a censorship tool, he should look in the mirror.” »

The New York Times published an article about the backlash from these fact-checking organizations, titled “Meta Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem.” Fact checkers say this is false. » The article said: “The fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content.”

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But users of social media platform X mocked the title.

“It does an effective job of exposing the fact-checking industry’s problem (perhaps by accident),” observed Robby Soave, editor-in-chief of Reason.

“Fact checkers claim fact checkers are the problem. That’s a real New York Times headline,” noted civil liberties attorney Laura Powell. “How can we produce satire when traditional media has become so ridiculous?”

“This is unbelievable. Meta says the fact checkers were the problem. The fact checkers are saying this is false,” Ana Bozovic, founder of Analytics Miami, said in a post. “To complete the absurdity: here is the report from the New York Times.”

“They actually wrote this and then published it,” marveled Chris Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Federalist editor Mollie Z. Hemingway wrote, “A headline beyond parody of the New York Times propaganda outlet.”

“I had to check it out myself because I couldn’t believe it wasn’t a parody,” political columnist Moshe Hill wrote in surprise. “It’s real.”

Meteorologist and data scientist John Basham joked that the headline “could easily have come” from political satire site The Babylon Bee, adding: “Life has become a parody on the left.”

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Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News contributed to this report.