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One of the biggest issue with fact checking, is that fact checkers don't try to see if something is true or false. But they guess what people are going to under
by polote 5y ago
One of the biggest issue with fact checking, is that fact checkers don't try to see if something is true or false. But they guess what people are going to understand from a post and then says whether or not those understandings are true or false.
For example if you say "There is no evidence that mask has helped reduce the spread of covid". You will probably be fact checked as false, because they think people will understand "Masks don't work".
- lostcolony 5y agoWell, that would be a valid thing to note as false. Perhaps you meant "in this particular study, there is no evidence that mask use helped reduce the spread of COVID", in which case, yes; people will understand it as "this study showed that masks don't work" rather than "this was a poorly conducted study"