Research departments work well because they are a supporting role. The author must correct inaccuracies, but it's still basically the author's voice. Fact chec

Research departments work well because they are a supporting role. The author must correct inaccuracies, but it's still basically the author's voice. Fact checkers who publish on their own are a problem. They can't resist bringing their own perspectives and arguments into the dicussion. A lot of stuff is technically true but misleading. So the fact-checkers write something of the form: "Pants on fire: technically true, but [inject rebuttal essay here]." That's all fine except that it's done under the moral banner of correcting lies. People who disagree with the viewpoints of the fact checker are understandably put off when they to take this moral high ground.