In the plethora of substitute saviours, few in the contemporary era come close to Facebook’s far-left fact-checkers.

They are the elevated enlightened, and there’s no telling them otherwise.

Like Caesar, a fact-checker’s thumbs up or thumbs down determines your level of existence.

You are Anderson. They are Agent Smith.

If you try to separate the news from the carefully scripted narrative on social media, your assigned Chinese-style social credit score is downgraded.

All-knowing and all-seeing fact-checkers get the final say.

Couple this God complex with those who devalue a page because facts hurt someone’s feelings, and the circle of Gnostic arrogance is complete.

These emerging computerised concentration camps reduce personhood to ‘user’ and user to a ‘number’.

This is because people, barcoded like products, are easier to de-bank, easier to corral, and are far less fussed about being controlled.

This also centralises adherence to social programming.

Those who are controlled can also be cancelled.

We’re already seeing Christians punished online for simply refusing to agree to commentary contrary to religious teachings. (See here, here, and here).

The policing of thought, appearances, and speech, is proof that the concept of governing bodies making themselves the ‘single source of truth’ isn’t a future possibility, it’s already a reality within the digital and political realms.

‘Single source of truth’ engineering of opinions (and facts) is becoming overt and blatant.

After posting a meme critical of transgenderism on Facebook, my page was red-flagged.

‘Fact-checkers’ challenged the Biblical account of the pronouns, ‘they/them/we/us’.

When I appealed the challenge on fact-based Biblical grounds, but it was rejected.

There was no exegesis, cross-referencing, engaging with koine Greek, authoritative scholars, or references to back them up.

Fact-checkers, who are not Bible scholars, or theologians, appear to have made themselves both.

Additionally, the fact-checkers clearly agree the pronoun, they/them refers to the plural we/us/they/them.

Yet, by the very nature of the fact-check and the pride-lens through which the world is viewed, it also asserts that they/them refers to a singular individual.

In this case, an individual who identifies as transgender.

Both cannot be true, in my opinion.

‘Fact-checkers’ are making facts up.

I recently discussed this butchering of basic grammar with Steven Tripp, Adam Zahra, and Natalie Dumer.

The Australian Labor Party’s proposed Misinformation/Disinformation bill is set top enforce this confusion by enshrining forced speech into Australian law.

Government as ‘our single source of truth’ will be the author of confusion, not peace.

Referring to abortion as anything other than ‘reproductive healthcare’?

Sorry, you can no longer shop for clothes!

Refuse to refer to a mother breastfeeding her child, as a chest-feeding birthing parent?

Strike two, no dinner for you!

More to the point, if this law passes, heaven help grandma who innocently ‘harms’ any they/them ‘individual’ because she used the plural pronoun properly.

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This article was first published at CaldronPool.

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