> When it came to fact-checking support for the project, the Times’ leadership told us that they had their own internal system in place for stories of this natu

> When it came to fact-checking support for the project, the Times’ leadership told us that they had their own internal system in place for stories of this nature. I found this odd and stupid. Just because NYT says they have a fact checking department doesn’t absolve me of critical thinking, source development, and my own confirmation. It also seems reasonable to validate this claim from NYT to understand how they fact check. It also seems like if there was a third party fact checking me, I’d be aware because they would start with info from me and they would talk with my sources who talked with me. This makes me think how crazy it would be to not bug test my software because someone told me the company has a testbot. But I don’t see any tests anywhere and don’t see output of tests anywhere. And there’s a syntax error that would be found if anyone even tried to compile or run.