In another high-profile denial of certiorari on Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected without comment Candace Owens‘ petition over fact-checks that labeled her COVID-19 posts on Facebook a “hoax” and “false.”The conservative commentator had claimed that fact-checkers Lead Stories and USA Today’s determinations about her posts amounted to tortious interference, as Facebook is her “primary marketplace” and Owens’ income was “severely damag[ed]” as a result.No mere rhetorical device, by labeling their articles ‘Fact Checks,’ both Respondents knew that they would trigger their contractual agreement with Facebook, by which Facebook has agreed to remove or otherwise obscure or limit any posts that its contractees, acting pursuant to its fact-check contract, determine to be ‘false,'” the petition said.'”Petitioner said the ensuing “warning labels […] superimposed the term ‘FALSE’ across the top of her posts” led to Owens’ “valuable ‘advertising contract’ with Facebook” to be “terminated, precluding Owens from placing her advertisements across Facebook’s thousands of pages and severely damaging her income.”The petition explained the logic of the petition this way:Respondents knew their labeling of Owens’ posts as “false” would trigger their contract with Facebook, causing Owens’ posts to be demonetized and her visitors re-directed to their websites.The fact that they communicated with Facebook and triggered their contractual agreement through web-based postings, rather than phone calls or text messages, does not change the character of the communication.Owens asserted that it was “an especially heinous charge” for the fact-check to conclude she “committed a ‘hoax’ involving the threat and danger of a worldwide pandemic […] implying that Owens knew the real danger of the disease yet purposely kept it hidden from the public, thereby choosing to endanger the health and lives of the thousands of people that visit her Facebook page.”Owens thus asked the court to resolve the following three questions:1."