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I keep seeing allusions to this bias. Can you point to any mainstream fact checking organizations that are consistently biased and any specific fact checks tha
by unclebucknasty 5y ago
I keep seeing allusions to this bias.
Can you point to any mainstream fact checking organizations that are consistently biased and any specific fact checks that illustrate this?
- dundarious 5y agoPlease don't dismiss it just because of the source or its focus on Sanders. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/washington-post-sanders-bezos-fact-checking https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/washington-post-sanders-b...
- unclebucknasty 5y agoI take your point and, while there's some subjectivity there, that may well be an example of fact-checking done in bad faith. I'm just not sure that it is happening at scale though. But I do agree that, to the extent that it is happening, it is particularly egregious when done under the guise of fact-checking versus, say, your standard tilted article.
- dundarious 5y agoEconomics and foreign policy are two areas where the fact checkers are most often cloaking ideology as facts. These are two massive and hugely important political areas though, so I think it's pretty widespread. Comments about political leaders, especially if the leader is aligned with the fact checking group, are also suspect. But leaders are huge often huge bullshit artists, so the fact checkers are also often absolutely right.