{"id":34987,"date":"2020-11-06T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34987"},"modified":"2020-11-06T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:21:34","slug":"candace-owens-to-sue-facebooks-over-censorship-every-patriot-needs-to-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34987","title":{"rendered":"Candace Owens to Sue Facebook&#8217;s Over Censorship, Every Patriot Needs to Follow Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Conservative activist Candace Owens has announced plans to sue Facebook&#8217;s third-party fact-checkers, accusing them of censorship and vowing to expose the relationship between the social media giant and fact-checker \u201cactivists.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>\u201cIt is time to fact-check the fact-checkers,\u201d Owens said in a video posted to her social media accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>I&#8217;m going to put these suckers through discovery and figure out what the relationship is that they have with Facebook.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1324515021657812992&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F505832-candace-owens-factcheck-lawsuit-facebook%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1324515021657812992\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The defendants in the lawsuit include USAToday, as well as Lead Stories Fact Checker \u2013 both third-party, fact-checking partners for Facebook. Owens said she was also planning to bring<em>\u00a0\u201cindependent fact-checking\u201d<\/em>\u00a0nonprofit PolitiFact to court as well.<\/p>\n<p>Owens accused the fact-checkers and Facebook of being a part of the allegedly ongoing attempt to turn the US into a\u00a0<em>\u201ccommunist\u201d<\/em>\u00a0country, where<em>\u00a0\u201cwrong\u201d<\/em>\u00a0opinion is suppressed, speaking of her experience with the platform. The fact-checkers are\u00a0<em>\u201cactivists for the left that shut down your speech if they don&#8217;t like it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Owens argued.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cQuite literally a doctor gave his opinion about Covid-19, which I shared, and Facebook issued a strike on my account because they said only information that they agree with about Covid-19 &#8230; was acceptable,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said, adding that her Facebook account was subsequently demonetized.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505832-candace-owens-factcheck-lawsuit-facebook\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505832-candace-owens-factcheck-lawsuit-facebook\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}