Of course it's going to backfire when partisan groups like Politifact and the Washington Post are running the entire operation, too. Especially around politics

Of course it's going to backfire when partisan groups like Politifact and the Washington Post are running the entire operation, too. Especially around politics, there's basically no such thing as fact. If politician X says that plan Y reduces problem Z by 13% but actually it was only reduced by 11.5%, technically he's wrong but the classification of his statement becomes subjective. This is where bias seeps in. If a right wing politician is off by 1% in a statement it's "mostly false". If a left wing politician is off by 1% it's "mostly true". I don't trust ANY of these organizations to "fact check" anything because they're utterly discredited.