Fact checkers have been proven wrong over and over again throughout the past few years. You need VERY intelligent people to check facts but there are too many c

Fact checkers have been proven wrong over and over again throughout the past few years. You need VERY intelligent people to check facts but there are too many corruptible, educated idiots posing as intelligent people... Also, there aren't enough truly smart people in positions of power to be able to select smart people to do fact-checking. The elites are just not smart enough. You can see how society is falling apart because of it. Our problem is that reality is more like in Planet of the Apes than Idiocracy; the big angry monkey lord cannot surround himself with smart individuals because he himself is not smart enough to identify and select them (cannot separate idiots from geniuses). He will surround himself with idiots because he can't tell the difference; the idiots are more similar to himself so he will choose them because of his ego. It's also like in the film Amadeus; the king is not very talented in music so he is unable to understand that Mozart is a musical genius, instead, he repeatedly promotes Salieri who is closer to his own skill level. In Idiocracy, the president is an idiot but he knows how to identify smart people by relying on an IQ test. It doesn't work like that in reality. IQ is not reliable for identifying critical thinking, also, almost nobody uses it for recruitment purposes anyway.