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Non-American here (i.e. did not watch the debate), what trouble became evident? Were they fact-checking too much? Not enough? Incorrectly?
by ziddoap 2y ago
Non-American here (i.e. did not watch the debate), what trouble became evident?
Were they fact-checking too much? Not enough? Incorrectly?
- WalterBright 2y agoOnly one side was fact checked.
- autoexec 2y agoWas it the side that did the vast majority of the lying?
- saulpw 2y agoYeah, the problem is that if one side tells 100 lies, and the other tells 1 lie, you can't correct all 100 lies, but if you only correct the most egregious lies then statistically you'll only be correcting the one side, and if you correct 1 lie from each side, then you make it seem like both sides lie equally. The Gish Gallop wins again.
- autoexec 2y agoEspecially for live fact checking the greater the number of lies and the more obvious/blatant those lies are the more likely someone is to get fact checked.
- gitaarik 2y agoWe would have to fact check if those numbers are correct. Oh wait, fact checkers don't work, better just inform yourself and make up your own mind, and don't just believe some supposedly authoritarian figures.
- dinkumthinkum 2y agoThis is the problem, you are clearly biased. She brought up the Charlottesville issue that has been widely debunked; it is blatantly false and well-known to be false. She was not fact-checked. That's the issue.
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- ceejayoz 2y agoOnly one side made claims like it being legal to abort babies post-birth.
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- ceejayoz 2y agoThis is a bit like the movie posters that quote "best movie of the year" when the full quote is "not the best movie of the year". Go back a sentence. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-virginia-governors-2019-comments-about-abortion-bill-are-missing-co-idUSKBN27D2GS/ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-virginia-go... > “where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s non viable” he said. “If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.” Your dying grandma may go DNR, but that doesn’t mean murdering grandmas is broadly legal. My wife does charity photography for https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/ https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/. You see lots of this sort of withdrawal of care. Calling it an abortion is cruel and dumb.