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Facts are not political, fact checking can absolutely be, and often is political. When nobody trusts the fact checkers anymore, as no intelligent person still
by abacadaba 5y ago
Facts are not political, fact checking can absolutely be, and often is political.
When nobody trusts the fact checkers anymore, as no intelligent person still does to any significant degree, they're not doing any good.
- Nursie 5y agoAll I see here are a string of assertions, nothing presented that would make me doubt the fact checkers. Especially as the ones I’ve seen also show their working. What I have seen is the people who have been fact checked mount a campaign to undermine fact checkers, and in fact undermine the idea that there are such things as facts.
- abacadaba 5y agoYou need to be more sympathetic to my lived reality. /s I don't have the time or energy to try to present a researched case here about this, but to millions of people the "our narrative is your truth" bs has been so thick and obvious that we just don't take most media or the fact checks based thereon seriously. I get it, it's a dangerous game, there are a lot of dumb people who will believe a lot of dumb conspiracy shit, which will inevitably 99.9% of the time devolve into some form of "the jews did it", targeting me, but that's why it's so dangerous to sacrifice all credibility pursuing some political goal.