While it might be intended with admirable goals, I do not believe fact checkers will convince anyone. I don't know much about the partaking outlets. The German

While it might be intended with admirable goals, I do not believe fact checkers will convince anyone. I don't know much about the partaking outlets. The German one did get funding from the open society foundation. That alone will turn some heads and the independence will be disputed to begin with. Being additionally funded by EU institutions might also seem to undermine independence. And why not, will these fact checkers really hold EU institutions to account? Doubtful. The cooperation with Facebook to flag certain posts is questionable. There is a trust problem in politics and the media landscape and it didn't just happen over night. Building back trust is a lot of work and takes a lot of time. A fact checker censoring alleged misinformation is not too helpful here. Especially in the pandemic it often bordered on propaganda in how the "correct" content was picked. Maybe they do a good job, but giving them the ability to flag Facebook posts to begin with? Hm...