> 2) assumption that downranking info that almost all fact checkers agree is false is a slippery slope will lead to downranking info that consensus reality says

> 2) assumption that downranking info that almost all fact checkers agree is false is a slippery slope will lead to downranking info that consensus reality says is true You mean I should put my trust in random doofuses who police narrative more than fact. Say, is a person a terrorist or not? Well, they belonged to an organization that bombed buildings and committed armed robberies. The person was also convicted of possessing hundreds of pounds of explosives. But! They have the right politics, so it earns a "Mixed" rating and squirming about the lack of "a universal definition of terrorism" so you can't really say that yeah, the person was a terrorist. Maybe they had the bombs to admire them peacefully with no intent of ever handing anything over to other members of a criminal organization she was explicitly a part of. That's the problem. Fact-checking is checking whether Californians like something, not a check of whether the facts actually line up.