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...