There is no platform/publisher distinction in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 [1] was originally meant to be a carve out to allow websites to host comment sections without being considered the "speaker" of those comments and thereby being subjected to the speech restrictions in the rest of the law. The rest of the law has since been struck down.
When people are mad about 230, what they're really mad about is the 1st Amendment.
Is Facebook the speaker when it applies a fact check? Maybe but it doesn't matter much with respect to 230 offers minimal protection beyond the 1st Amendment. And as others have stated, the bar for libel against public figures is VERY high in the US.
The bar for proving libel is so incredibly high in the United States, it's generally easier for a man to jump to the moon than for a public figure to file and win a libel case.
"People said damaging things about me" is just one of the conditions that have to be met.
Yeah the whole 230 discussions is at best naive and at worst a cynical attack on 1A rights by no nothing dead enders and authoritarian leftists. The same coalition that brought you the drug war, the satanic panic, and the global war on terror.
Uh, both the War on Drugs and War on Terror were started by Republican presidents (Satanic Panic is a little harder to unravel), with broad support (at the time, anyway) on both sides of the aisle. If you're going to spout nonsense, at least pick examples consistent with your nonsense.
The current president was both the author of the notorious crime bill and the precursor to the patriot act. He did this in alliance with lawmakers from the nominally opposing party.
When people are mad about 230, what they're really mad about is the 1st Amendment.
Is Facebook the speaker when it applies a fact check? Maybe but it doesn't matter much with respect to 230 offers minimal protection beyond the 1st Amendment. And as others have stated, the bar for libel against public figures is VERY high in the US.
[1]https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230