Fact-Checking Fiesta

Chris dives into the absurdity of social media fact-checking during COVID with his "Fact Check Fiesta." From satire flagged as false to personal anecdotes of censorship, he critiques the influence of fact-checking partnerships on platforms like Facebook. Featuring hilarious highlights from the Babylon Bee and a satirical take on fact-checking missteps, Chris explores the intersection of free speech, misinformation, and tech accountability. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
All right, Kettles, We've got a little fun, a little
fact checking fiesta.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, I am fact checkers, fact checkers, disinformation, missed information,
all that good stuff that was coming out of Washington,
DC and the social media companies during COVID. Oh yeah,
they most certainly hit me up good. Yeah, they made

(00:45):
it difficult. We were talking about all the COVID nonsense
on our podcast. Algorithms didn't like me. Facebook put me
in jail for a period of time. Yeah, you know
how long it took me to get my TSA pre check.

(01:06):
They sign up for TSA PreCheck, My wife gets it.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Like a day. Months go by.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm like, where is this thing for crying out?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Like, yeah, yeah, I was, I was. I guess a government.
I guess I'm a government unfriendly. Well, Mark Zuckerberg is
all of.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
A sudden, all of a sudden's got some courage. He
grew a set of cojones, and he's a big free
speech guy.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Now yeah, again he he listened to Democrats after the
twenty sixteen election and Russia, this information, all the crap
that was going on at that period of time. And

(01:54):
then Facebook. Again, it's kind of brilliant on Mark Zuckerberg's part,
but again shows what little spine he has. He he
had third parties, third parties, the mainstream media, non NGOs,
nonprofit nonprofits, fact checking posts.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, it's misleading, that's false. You can't say that.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, my god, how dare you say that that COVID
came from a lab?

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, anyway, this we've gotta have a little fun right
here with this fact check fiesta. This was an actual
headline in the New York Times. Okay, Meta says fact
checkers were the problem. Fact checkers rule that false.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
That's an actual head last sight.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Again, Meta says fact checkers were the problem. Fact checkers
rule that false. Anyway, we're gonna have a little fun.
We're gonna have a little fun here and again, I
gotta even a shout out to the Well again one
of my favorite favorite satire sites out there again sat tire.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Funny fun jokes.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Anyway, the Babylon Bee, the Babylon Bee and uh, they
put out a little thread here in honor of Facebook
ending its fact checking partnerships. These are some Again, Babylon
B is a satire site. Okay, but these are some
of the fact checks that were done by Meta and Scopes. Again,

(03:51):
you couldn't make this up.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Number one.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Number one Babylon B puts out again a satire CNN
purchases industrial size washing machine to spin news before publication.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Facebook and snow.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Facebook's threatened Babylon Be with suppression and demonetization for sharing
false information.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Number two.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Ocasio Cortes appears on The Price Is Right guesses everything
is free.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yep, that got fact checked as well.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Number three.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
The Ninth Circuit Court overturns the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Oh my god, not only that, but the us A
today how to point out that that was satire?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
That's great too.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
With moon water announcement, Trump proposes his Space Navy say today, Facebook,
that's Trump. Number five Trump, I have done for more,
done more for Christianity than Jesus.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
And fact checked them on that one. Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Okay, good old evangelical churches now Elevation Church debuts Water
slide baptismal again. Snopes and Facebook fact checked them on
that number seven. Pope Francis said COVID vaccine will now
be required to enter heaven again, fact check Reuter's Facebook.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
You name it.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Another one ballot box is installed along border wall. Yep, again,
the Reuters fact checkers went nuts on that one.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
California considering tax on breathing.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Again. They all had a fact check that.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Joel Ostein apologizes for using the lord's name in sermon
number eleven thanks to new laws. Veggie Tails introduces new
cannabis character number twelve. NBA players wear special lace collars
to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even The Guardian got
in on a fact check with that. Anyway, anyway, it

(06:29):
could be me call my were people just much smarter?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'm back, I'm sorry. I mean you think about Monty
Python and the comedy from yesterday? Anyway?

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, factchecker Fiesta Watchdog on Wallstreet dot com