On Facebook, Denying Russian Atrocities in Bucha Is More Popular Than the Truth
I don&#x27;t know if the atrocities in Bucha were staged, if I&#x27;m being perfectly honest, I literally can&#x27;t know that.  It seems more plausible the Russians are responsible than the Ukrainians, but I can&#x27;t actually know that.  I wasn&#x27;t there.  The posters are correct, the Ukrainians <i>might</i> have staged the deaths.  I doubt it, false flag attacks are far more rare than some run-of-the-mill victimisation by an invading force, but it&#x27;s true that they <i>might</i> have staged things.  Facebook should absolutely not be going further than attributing source, and should be wary of false positives.<p>This idea that Facebook has a mandate to link articles to some bias editorials so long as the editorialist calls themselves a fact checker is asinine.  I don&#x27;t have an issue with editorialists, I just don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re entitled to such undemocratic favoritism.  They can publish a browser extension or something if they want links to their articles to be overlaid on top of Facebook.<p>I&#x27;ve grown a distaste for the very concepts of &quot;denialism&quot; or &quot;fact checking&quot;.  It&#x27;s practically a red flag to me at this point that this person is going to start advocating editorialising social media with their version of the truth despite their lack of objectivity or actual knowledge.