Facebook "won" a lawsuit for displaying fact-check messages on anti-vaccination posts, which according to the team that filed the complaint is "censorship".
The Children's Health Defense (from CHD), led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., filed a lawsuit Monday in San Francisco Federal Court.
In April, when the influx of misleading and fake content about COVID-19 began, the largest social network began warning users when they interacted with posts of disinformation about the pandemic, with like, or share tags.
In these publications there were also "cure for all" measures, fake methods for the prevention of transmission and conspiracy theories, which connected the vaccinations for COVID-19 with 5G!
The proalerts περιελάμβαναν προειδοποιήσεις και ειδοποιήσεις από εταιρείες ελέγχου γεγονότων για παραπλανητικό περιεχόμενο και μη αποδεδειγμένες αξιώσεις, καθώς και συνδέσμους προς τις σελίδες των Κέντρων Ελέγχου και Πρόληψης Νοσημάτων (Disease Control and Prevention or CDC)) and the World Health Organization (World Health Organization or WHO).
Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and three fact-checking firms hired by the company to conduct checks on hot issues such as Covid-19, 5G and vaccines, are accused of “false misrepresentation and defamation of CHD”.
Along with the appearance of notifications on CHD content, Facebook also removed the group donation button and cut the ads.
CHD states in its complaint (PDF) that Facebook and the US government collaborated on censorship and that the company should not be protected as a First Amendment infringer - which usually does not apply to private companies, as Facebook and the state appear to have "privatized" the law.
In addition, the group claims that Facebook has "suspicious transactions" with pharmaceutical companies, health regulators, and has a legitimate interest in telecommunications and 5G.
CHD is seeking more than $ 5 million in damages.
