Michele Kieler
Case #
821

Facebook censors Constitutional quote: A Facebook user posted a meme of a quote along with a photo of Patrick Henry. The quote does not give attribution but the photo does provide an implicit attribution. The quote says: "The Constitution is not a document for the government to retrain the people. It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. Facebook applied a Fact-Check filter over it, saying it is False information, and that "the same information was checked in another post by independent fact-checkers." Some research shows that the fact-checkers call this false information because the quote cannot be accurately attributed to Patrick Henry, though he said similar things. The fact-check filter does not indicate that the problem with the quote is attribution, not inaccuracy of the content of the quote.

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