Aaron Sorkin’s New York Times op-ed complaining about Facebook fact-checks contained multiple factual errors

By Becket Adams

Published October 31, 2019 8:23pm ET

Aaron Sorkin’s New York Times op-ed complaining about Facebook fact-checks contained multiple factual errors — FILE - In this April 10, 2018, file photo Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks down as a break is called during his testimony before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington. Twitter's ban on political advertising is ratcheting up the pressure on Facebook and Zuckerberg to follow suit. Zuckerberg doubled down on Facebookâs approach in a call with analysts Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, he reiterated Facebookâs stance that âpolitical speech is important." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) | (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Not even O. Henry could have conceived of a story with this much irony.

The New York Times published an error-riddled opinion article on Oct. 31 attacking Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for refusing to censor error-riddled political content posted by any of the social media website’s estimated one billion active users. In other words, the New York Times failed to fact-check an op-ed complaining about Facebook’s supposed failure to fact-check the world.