> Factchecking costs money Authors who do not fact-check are writing fiction. That is not journalism. > not everyone has ssc’s budget What budget? It's one o

> Factchecking costs money Authors who do not fact-check are writing fiction. That is not journalism. > not everyone has ssc’s budget What budget? It's one or a handful of people writing a blog. I'm sure the budget of The Atlantic, founded in the 1800s, dwarfs that of SSC.