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I think that politifact, snopes, and most fact-checking websites I'm aware of are great and everyone should use them as sources of reason and skepticism in a la

• marknutter 10y ago
  > But they are not authorities on the truth. I actually find them to be quite a bit more dangerous than normal news publications precisely because they claim to have some higher standard for truth. When truth comes down to a score card, you can inject less spin and bias into the article than you would otherwise have to because so long as your readers see that something was at least "mostly true" or "mostly false" they will consider the case closed because it says "fact" right in the name of the publication.
  • savanaly 10y ago
    Do you think that a) it's possible, hypothetically, for an organization to exist that holds itself to a consistently higher standard of truthful reporting, both in basic facts in in how they report it b) if yes to a), it's practical to make an organization like that c) if yes to a) and b), should the organization attempt to advertise itself as being "more truthful" than other places that don't do that, such as by putting "fact" in their name?