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"Fact checkers" would be hilarious if they weren't so effective at fooling the gullible. I don't know why exactly they sprung up, I guess people eventually star
by throwawaylinux 5y ago
"Fact checkers" would be hilarious if they weren't so effective at fooling the gullible. I don't know why exactly they sprung up, I guess people eventually started to cotton on that news and internet corporations were not exactly on the up and up. So calling something news or journalism no longer cuts it. We now have another layer called "fact checking" and millions of people fell for it. Pretty soon it's going to be "really truthful Science™-based fact checking brought to you by Experts".
- hkt 5y agohttps://www.facebook.com/journalismproject/programs/third-party-fact-checking/how-it-works https://www.facebook.com/journalismproject/programs/third-pa... tl;dr there's a system that brings third parties and pays them for this. They're not actually Facebook employees but are generally expected to be journalists of some kind. Still, they get it really quite wrong occasionally: https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/facebook-urged-to-act-over-incompetent-fact-check-of-bmj-investigation/ https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/facebook-urged-to-act-o...
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI didn't intend to imply they're Facebook employees or was even talking about facebook specifically at all. Just the idea of calling this stuff "fact checking". > Still, they get it really quite wrong occasionally: Don't worry that'll never happen with super-duper science-based expert fact checkers.