Video (above) Candace Owens: | Guess what?! am suing the “Fact-Checkers” | Nov. 5, 2020

#Blexit Founder Candace Owens Lawyers up to Take on Big Tech and Their Third-Party Censors, Winning the First Round Against Politifact (Video)

BY LISA MICHELLE

Founder of Blexit Candace Owens is taking on the social media giants and the “omniscient” third-party “fact-checkers” that they have deployed to censor free speech. She has won the first round, but she doesn’t intend to stop there.

“Candace Vs Zuck,” reads the header at factcheckzuck.com, a site Owens recently launched to raise funds to “Fact-Check His [Zuckerberg’s] Fact-Checkers” and pursue legal recourse against them. “Time to Fact-Check His Fact-Checkers,” she proclaims.

Our freedoms are being stripped away. The overlords of Big Tech are determining what Americans can and cannot say, share, like, and post. Support our legal efforts today as we fight back against Facebook’s fact-checkers, confronting those who are suppressing free speech, thought, and expression across our great country.”

It all started when Facebook fact-checked and marked an accurate post of hers as false. “Weeks ago,” Owens explains in a tweet, “@Facebook censored a post of mine which truthfully stated that @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect. 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.”

Facebook was forced to reinstate her post and account, and Politifact was left with egg on its face, retracting its claim and following up with a correction.

Yet, even before that, as Owens describes in the video at the top of this piece, she was prompted to seek legal recourse after she shared an article by a doctor who discussed the adverse affects of Covid-19 restrictions and questioned reported death rates. Facebook swiftly removed her post, censored her page, and followed up with an article by a different doctor who disagreed. “So,” Owens concludes, “basically Facebook censored me because their doctor was better than mine.”

When Owens researched the “official” third-party fact-checker of Facebook, she was astonished to learn that the fact-checking process didn’t involve a panel of qualified doctors, medical experts, or even one single scientist. Instead, it was based on the biased opinions of a single political activist, who as it so happens traces back to leadstories.com — a company formed in 2016 by Alan Duke, a former CNN editor of 26 years, after Donald J. Trump won the 2016 Presidential Election.

Fed up with faux hearings by a do-nothing Congress, Owens is now determined to take on Big Tech and their biased, unqualified fact-checkers herself with the best team of lawyers and massive lawsuits — including against Lead Stories and USA Today.

Owens plans to hit them so hard where it hurts that the censorship business becomes a fruitless financial liability.

Armanda Prestigiacomo of the Daily Wire elaborates further . . .

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Candace Owens Challenges Fact-Checker, And Wins

“I wanted to show that these fact-checkers just lie, and they usually go unchecked because most people don’t have the money, don’t have the time, and don’t have the platform to go after them — and I have all three.”

By Amanda Prestigiacomo   | DailyWire.com | November 28, 2020

Conservative author and commentator Candace Owens challenged left-leaning fact-checking site PolitiFact, a partner with Facebook, over a “false” rating — and won.

Not only did PolitiFact remove their “false” rating and retract an article on why Owens’ video was allegedly false, but the site offered an added “correction” admitting their fault.

Owens’ video, which was posted on Nov. 12, offered commentary on the 2020 presidential election, and was captioned, “Joe Biden is literally and legally not the President-elect. So why is the media pretending he is?”

The video was hit with a “false” rating, and, as noted by Owens, theoretically, every single person who shared the post was alerted by Facebook that they had shared “false” content.

“Weeks ago, [Facebook] censored a post of mine which truthfully stated that [Joe Biden] is NOT the President-elect. So I got lawyers involved,” she said Saturday via Twitter. “Conclusion? [PolitiFact] uncensored the post & admitted that they LIED by rating my post false. The fact-checkers are lying for Democrats.”

The note from PolitiFact reads as follows:

Correction: PolitiFact originally labeled this video false in our capacity as a third-party fact-checker for Facebook. 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.

“At 8 Months pregnant, I unfortunately cannot fight on the ground alongside patriots like I am used to, but I am taking every measure to fight these communists in the court room,” Owens said in a follow-up post. “It is my goal to expose these lying ‘fact-checkers’ one by one. [Joe Biden] is NOT the President-elect.”

But the language from PolitiFact’s note perhaps downplays what really happened.

The BLEXIT founder told The Daily Wire on Saturday that she reached out to PolitiFact on Nov. 20 with legal representation and immediately heard back, with PolitiFact admitting their error. Language from a lawyer at PolitiFact, according to Owens, read as follows:

Upon first glance, this video from Ms. Owens was labeled false from PolitiFact in error. We already have removed the label from the video and you should now be able to see it unobstructed.

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.

Owens said she was not further briefed on the supposed “error” and that she felt the retraction wasn’t enough; she wanted PolitiFact to admit publicly that they falsely fact-checked her.

“I wanted to show that these fact-checkers just lie, and they usually go unchecked because most people don’t have the money, don’t have the time, and don’t have the platform to go after them — and I have all three,” she said.

With pressure from Owens’ legal representation, PolitiFact issued the correction, which she shared with the public on Saturday. That was a win. And another “major win,” she said, was PolitiFact essentially admitting “that Joe Biden is not the President-elect.”

Owens, who’s currently suing fact-checkers from USAToday and Lead Stories, explained to The Daily Wire that she knew she had to reach out with legal representation if she wanted to get results with this latest false fact-check. She said that in her experience, when she’s tried to appeal fact-checks through the system, she’s been stonewalled.

“These people are sitting back thinking they’re the gods of tech; opinion-checkers, they’re censorship lords,” the conservative said.

It was that past treatment by fact-checkers that sparked Owens’ suit, which was announced earlier this month. She has launched her own legal website to raise funds for the pricey battle.

The suit seems to have numerous goals, including an effort to disincentivize single-narrative “fact-checking.”

“I want to make it so there’s no incentive for PolitFact, USAToday, Lead Stories to sign-on to be a fact-checker,” she said. “I want to show that they can get sued and lose money. So, what is the point of them taking on that liability on behalf of Facebook?”

“At the same time, Facebook is distancing themselves from fact-checkers,” Owens continued. “We went after Facebook and sent them a letter, and they said, we have nothing to do with the fact checkers. … So, if Facebook isn’t coming to their aid, and they’re being sued by individuals, there will be no upside. And that’s sort of the corner we’re trying to pinch them into.”

Owens wants the censorship stopped for the millions of Americans sharing opinions or information against the one accepted narrative from the Left. If she wins her legal case, she said, she could set the precedent for a massive class action lawsuit against Facebook from others who’ve allegedly been censored.

As announced on election night, Owens is joining The Daily Wire and has a new show in the works set to debut in 2021.

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