The Supreme Court turned down an appeal by conservative commentator and Blexit leader Candace Owens over Facebook’s so-called fact-checks that described her posts about COVID-19 as “false” and a “hoax.”
The court provided no reasons for its Oct. 3 decision denying the petition in Owens v. Lead Stories LLC (court file 21-1474). Gannett Satellite Information Network, which does business as USA Today, was also a respondent in the case. Facebook, owned by Meta Platforms, was not a party in the case.
The Supreme Court of Delaware ruled against Owens in February after a state judge dismissed her lawsuit in July 2021.
Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz, an appointee of Democrat Gov. John Carney, wrote in a 55-page ruling that he discovered no facts in Owens’ complaint that supported her claim that the media outlets that published articles on several of her social media posts defamed her, as The Epoch Times reported….