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That's essentially what already happened to the whole "fact checking site" industry. When journalists committed a mass professional suicide in their desire to h
by smsm42 6y ago
That's essentially what already happened to the whole "fact checking site" industry. When journalists committed a mass professional suicide in their desire to help politicians they like, there was a perceivable need for non-propaganda information. Thus, "fact checking" gets into fashion. Big players immediately move in anf fact checkers start first getting subtle bias and then just do the same the press did only a short while before - declare that their mission are "bigger than just checking facts", they should serve the noble causes and help people make the right choices - those choices being their preferred partisan points - and surely attacking your own party with the same vigor as you would the opposing one is not helping people making the right choices... and in a short while we're back to the proverbial sq.1 I don't know how to solve this - I have observed several project that started with a noble goal of delivering just facts, away from propaganda and partisan bias - and in a year or two they become as biased as any MSM they wanted to replace.
- gtsop 6y agoThat is very interesting. Can you provide a couple resources?
- smsm42 6y agoSnopes? It has been pretty good and neutral resource when they did urban legends. Once they got into big politics, they became very biased and then made a laughingstock of themselves "fact checking" labeled satire.