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Facebook fact-checker forced to issue correction after Candace Owens challenged 'false' rating
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Facebook fact-checker forced to issue correction after Candace Owens challenged 'false' rating

'I am taking every measure to fight these communists in the court room'

Political commentator Candace Owens challenged a "false" rating from a third-party Facebook fact-checker and she won.

Earlier this month, Owens announced that she was taking legal action against the fact-checkers used by social media platforms. Owens brought the case because she became tired of being censored on Twitter and Facebook by third-party fact-checkers, as well as seeing fellow conservatives being silenced on social media.

Owens retained a pair of lawyers to represent her in the lawsuit, including attorney Todd McMurtry, who was part of the legal team representing former Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann. Owens is reportedly suing fact-checkers from USA Today and Lead Stories, according to the Daily Wire.

"It is time to fact-check the fact-checkers," Owens said. "I'm going to put these suckers through discovery and figure out what the relationship is that they have with Facebook."

Owens launched a website titled "Fact-Check Zuck," which says, "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," the site says.

"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," Owens said.

Owens celebrated her first victory in the case against the social media behemoths on Saturday.

"Weeks ago, @Facebook censored a post of mine which truthfully stated that @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect," Owens wrote on Saturday. "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."

"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," the conservative firebrand added. "It is my goal to expose these lying 'fact-checkers' one by one. @JoeBiden is NOT the President-elect."

PolitiFact issued a correction and removed the false rating.

"Correction: PolitiFact originally labeled this video false in our capacity as a third-party fact-checker for Facebook," PolitiFact wrote on Facebook on Nov. 25. "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 argued that Joe Biden is not technically the president-elect as of yet, he was only named as the president-elect by media outlets, which is not authorized to name the president-elect. Biden is projected to be the winner of the 2020 presidential election, but the president-elect will not officially be named until the Electoral College cast its votes on Dec. 14, once all states have officially certified their results.

President Donald Trump is currently challenging the results in the election and has filed several lawsuits in critical swing states.

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