If you do a Google search for Facebook Facechecks are opinions you'll find several results. What's interesting is the top 5 or 6 are within the last day. And they all say exactly the same thing.
Not cover the story with the same results.
The words are exactly the same. In the same order. With the same links. And they all say they got the original story from this website: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-facebook-court-filing-admits-fact-checks-are-just-matter-opinion
Who in turn says they got it from... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/stunning_facebook_court_filing_emadmitsem_fact_checks_are_just_a_matter_of_opinion.html
I bring this up because it's an old-school way to convince Google your story is legit. You circulate the same piece across several blogs that you control or you can pay to host the article. you provide all the links. All the graphics. they just give you the backlinks to make the story look real.
Because it must be real, there are all these results when I search for it! A fake story wouldn't rank so high on a Google search, would it?
This technique is why Google switched from vetting sites based on how many other places linked back to it, and started scanning pages for what's actually there.
If you do some Google searches for Stossel and Facebook, you'll find that reporting from various sources happened back in September. But nothing since then. If you go back to your original search, you'll see that same dividing line in dates. The top 5 or so stories are within the last day. All the other ones are from September.
That's extremely sus.
But the original article points to this as to where Facebook "admits" it's all just opinion: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3543&context=historical
And that's the court filing written by Stossels lawyer. Not Facebook's response.
I read through it a few times. I couldn't find where Facebook's lawyers say it's all opinion. There's parts where Stossel's lawyers say they mark something as false when it disagrees with their opinion.
I did a ctr+F for opinion. Couldn't find it. Did a ctr+F for fact check. Couldn't find it.
But I don't see it.
So... No. Facebook didn't say that in a court case.