This isn’t the first time Facebook’s hit this very real news blog with a fake fact check.
The first time I’ve seen it is with my posts calling out child abuse in the science fiction industry stemming back to the 1950s, citing very real examples of such abuses and how they’ve impacted publishing, conventions, and the people around them.
This time, I was actually talking about Facebook’s censorship — and how because a few trolls reported my promotional posts of my IndieGoGo Campaign for my comic book, RoboToad: Rekt Manlet, Facebook suspended me from posting (along with twitter and youtube).
When you click on the post you find some ridiculous excuse that this is some fake news about Sarah Palin? I never mention Palin in the post (nor any of my posts except this one).
Facebook’s fact checking has become a censorship tool simply to make people not click on sites they don’t like, like mine. Why? Because I’m a threat to the establishment’s stranglehold on culture, and they don’t want people to find out about the products I provide, nor my analysis on what’s going on in culture.
They especially don’t want you to find out about censorship like this and their fake fact checking which is obviously a scam.
These sites have gone notorious for censorship lately, which I’ve been mocking (and I find myself quite funny):
But the actual problems are real. And what it means is I’m unable to get my books out to people who might want to read them because people now have to click through these walls of “fact checks” to even look at my new book content. It makes it harder than ever before — and it’s these tech companies trying to put a clamp on people making progress in culture who go against their narrative.
I should mention I have a new comic, The Comic Warrior #2 out. It’s great fun, good pulpy sci-fi, TONS of action — and a positive Christian male lead as a character. It’s no wonder they want to censor me.
Matthew Given says
Well, I guess they just proved one thing. Comics were always dull, depressing, political garbage that were not worth reading.
So the next time someone from Marvel or DC complains about low sales I can just say that Facebook has fact checked me on the idea that comics were ever fan and that is why I am not buying them.