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Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public: Sharyl Attkisson
The Epoch Times ^ | January 23, 2022 | Masooma Haq and Jan Jekielek

Posted on 01/23/2022 9:22:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship and disapprove of journalism. One of the strategies that has been employed is the use of third-party fact-checkers, she said.

“Nearly every mode of information has been co-opted, if it can be co-opted by some group, [and] fact-checkers are no different,” Attkisson told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”

“Either they’ve been co-opted, in many instances, or created for the purpose of distributing narratives and propaganda,” said Attkisson. “This is all part of a very well-funded, well-organized landscape that dictates and slants the information they want us to have.”

Attkisson said she first started to notice news being controlled in the early 2000s when the media company she was working for was actively trying to suppress certain stories.

“The pushback came to be more about keeping a story from airing or keeping a study from being reported on the news, not just giving the other side, not just making sure it was accurately reported,” she said of pharmaceutical company stories she was covering at the time.

In 2016 Attkisson heard former President Barack Obama say news needed to be curated, after which mainstream media outlets started to consistently use the term fake news to describe mostly conservative news stories that they deemed untrue.

“And I remember thinking that was such a strange thing to say, because there was no big movement among the public, that people needed to have their information curated, that someone needed to step in and tell us what to think, curate what was online. But … after that, if you look at the media, day after day, there were headlines about fake news and curation of what should and shouldn’t be reported.”

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1 posted on 01/23/2022 9:22:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fact Checker job description: “Ensure the truth never sees the light of day.”


2 posted on 01/23/2022 9:24:24 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes - whenever I see or hear the words “fact check”, I know that I can immediately stop reading or listening right there.


3 posted on 01/23/2022 9:27:23 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you believe these factcheckers, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.


4 posted on 01/23/2022 9:27:36 AM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Most “Fact checkers” are sponsored by Soros, Zuckerberg and other far left billionaires or by left wing outfits like the New York Times.
Conservatives need to set up our own fact checkers. Before the elections in November.
5 posted on 01/23/2022 9:28:15 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Every “fact checker” does nothing but provide a left-wing opinion about something.


6 posted on 01/23/2022 9:29:18 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: G Larry
Fact Checker job description: “Ensure the truth never sees the light of day.”

Yup.

7 posted on 01/23/2022 9:29:52 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Fact Cheka: arresting facts without charges, holding secret trials in underground prisons, executing them and burying their bodies in unmarked graves since 1917.


8 posted on 01/23/2022 9:32:08 AM PST by KarlInOhio (I stand behind Alec Baldwin. It is far too dangerous to stand in front of him.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fact checkers employed by the Ministry of Propaganda is still just propaganda.


9 posted on 01/23/2022 9:36:31 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So according to her, what exactly is the touch stone to test the truth?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_%28assaying_tool%29

What do we use to test the truth?

What should we use to test the truth.


10 posted on 01/23/2022 9:36:45 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
What do we use to test the truth?

What should we use to test the truth.

There's really no substitute for your own independent experienced brain.

11 posted on 01/23/2022 9:39:39 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: PeterPrinciple
So according to her, what exactly is the touch stone to test the truth?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_%28assaying_tool%29

What do we use to test the truth?

What should we use to test the truth.

IT'S NOT THEIR JOB TO "TEST THE TRUTH!!!"

That's what the First Amendment is all about!!!

12 posted on 01/23/2022 9:40:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: PeterPrinciple

If they want to “test the truth” they are legally a publisher and can be sued for content.

If they don’t “test the truth” they are legally a platform and can’t be sued for content.

But they want it both ways.


13 posted on 01/23/2022 9:42:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Steely Tom

There’s really no substitute for your own independent experienced brain.


It has been my experience that I have a pretty good ability to lie to myself.....................

But I understand your point, always test.

The truth is a rare commodity.

define truth, define rare, define commodity.


14 posted on 01/23/2022 9:45:10 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fact Check is a tell. Letting me know someone is ready to lye to me. e.g. Biden won the 2020 election. YouTube told me so.
Thanks anyway Sheryl.


15 posted on 01/23/2022 9:47:23 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Steely Tom

“We Report,
YOU DECIDE.”
.
Where have I heard that?


16 posted on 01/23/2022 9:48:55 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am not the least bit confused by fact checkers. I pay them no mind whatsoever.


17 posted on 01/23/2022 10:24:00 AM PST by AndyJackson
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My ex-best friend chose a left-wing fact check opinion about the Georgia election theft over our friendship.


18 posted on 01/23/2022 10:25:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Big Red Badger
We Report,

Here is the narrative. We can't report the other side of the argument because following our policy of no providing disinformation we fact checked it and discovered that it has been debunked.

19 posted on 01/23/2022 10:28:01 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
fact check opinion

😘

20 posted on 01/23/2022 10:29:37 AM PST by AndyJackson
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