A specific example. I went to a fact-checking conference. During the keynote, the speaker (a previous Wikipedia foundation CEO) used a graph from a study to dr

A specific example. I went to a fact-checking conference. During the keynote, the speaker (a previous Wikipedia foundation CEO) used a graph from a study to drive home a specific point. It sounded way too perfect, and I got suspicious. After the talk I looked up the study, found the graph, and below it the research wrote "Do not interpreted the above graph as X! For reasons Y, this would be false. The graph illustrate Z, with the caveats of ...". I contacted the conference holders about the obvious issue of using the graph to prove X, and they forwarded it to the speaker. Nothing happened. This in turn drove home a different point for me. Fact checkers don't care about facts if those facts don't fit in the social context that they are being used.