People need to learn to do their own actual research rather than relying of fact checkers.
excellent point.
The "fact checkers" are designed to serve the bumper sticker progressives. They provide "gotcha" opportunities for liberals.
I know several progressives who love to quote Snopes and the WAPO fact checker. They hate inconvenient facts, so the biased fact checkers give them an easy tool to shut down meaningful discussions.
Ironically, the purpose of fact checkers is to shut down debate, thus limiting free speech.