> Fact-checking won't change a thing about spin-doctoring. That's like saying padlocks won't change a thing about burglaries. Of course padlocks cannot preven

> Fact-checking won't change a thing about spin-doctoring. That's like saying padlocks won't change a thing about burglaries. Of course padlocks cannot prevent burglaries 100%. But the salient point here is to make the burglary harder, to raise the entry level to where the frequency of the undesirable event decreases markedly. And of course you should not rely exclusively on padlocks - you also need cops, alarm systems, etc. Same with fact checking. It's become very trivial to spew bullshit on the Internet, it's as easy as email spam in the past decade. We need to make it more expensive to conduct such activities, ideally orders of magnitude more expensive.