A Delaware judge this week threw out a lawsuit filed by Candance Owens against so-called fact-checkers. Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz, an appointee of Democrat Gov. John Carney, said in a 55-page ruling that he found no facts in Owens’ complaint supportive of her claim that the media outlets who published articles on several of her social media posts defamed her. Owens, a conservative political commentator with The Daily Wire, alleged in her complaint last year that Lead Stories and USA Today malicious included false statements in articles claiming to fact check the posts. She said that a description of one of her posts as a “hoax” and “false” was itself false. But Karsnitz ruled that the phrases did not meet the “reasonable conceivability” standard that state law requires. The term “hoax alert” that Lead Stories plastered onto a promotion for its article on Facebook “was used as loose, figurative, or hyperbolic …