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‘Fact Check’ Has Become Just Another Word for Censorship
New York Post ^ | Oct. 3, 2024 | Douglas Murray

Posted on 10/04/2024 3:00:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: something that is now entirely in the eye of the beholder. At the vice presidential debate this week, the CBS moderators once again tried to show that they were the fair and impartial people in the room

Except that — as with the Trump-Harris debate — they only seemed interested in fact-checking in one direction. Against the Republican. On Tuesday night, the subject of Springfield, Ohio, once again came up. And once again, Springfield revealed one of the big problems of this media era.

CBS’s Margaret Brennan decided to fact-check something that JD Vance said and immediately relayed a piece of false information herself. Following Vance’s point about the number of illegal migrants, Brennan announced authoritatively that Springfield does in fact have “a large number of Haitian migrants” but that they have “legal status [and] Temporary Protected Status.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; censorship; dissent; douglasmurray; factcheck; freespeech; mediabias
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1 posted on 10/04/2024 3:00:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Like I've been saying for the last 12 years:

These days, any person or group who calls themselves "Fact Checkers" are not interested in presenting the truth, but are "checking" the facts: as in the second definition of verb (used with object):

2: to restrain; hold in restraint or control.

2 posted on 10/04/2024 3:05:10 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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It depends on whose “facts” you use to do the “checking.”


3 posted on 10/04/2024 3:08:01 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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(Fact Check’ Has Become Just Another Word for Censorship)

That’s absolutely correct

‘1984’ is in play


4 posted on 10/04/2024 3:14:06 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway
but that they have “legal status [and] Temporary Protected Status.”

This is why I can't stand when people say "LEGAL immigration is great, it's the illegal we don't want." NO!

1) This is not 1880. The U.S. doesn't need a huge influx of people to build infrastructure. The only immigrants we should consider are those who make a VERY strong case for how THEY will benefit US!

2) "Legal" is nothing more than a pen-swipe or EO away from "illegal." Just as the Haitian problem proves.

5 posted on 10/04/2024 3:18:23 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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I mentioned this in another thread but the MSM is trying to redefine "lie" to mean anything that doesn't conform to the narrative that the MSM is trying to tell. "Fact-checking" isn't trying to determine a statement's veracity but instead its conformity to the preferred narrative.

In the other thread I mentioned the Russian Collusion story that was deemed to be true because it was the preferred MSM narrative but is now known to be false. Hunter's laptop would be another perfect example of the MSM preferred narrative. In the MSM narrative, the laptop was just a ridiculous conspiracy theory until the narrative was no longer needed and the truth came out.

6 posted on 10/04/2024 3:19:23 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Re-elect Donald Trump - AGAIN)
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To: nickcarraway

Pretty much, along with “news reporting”, “election integrity”, and “DEI”.


7 posted on 10/04/2024 3:22:12 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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As it is done by the Demonicrats or their Enemedia allies, ‘Fact Check’ has become just another word for giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.


8 posted on 10/04/2024 3:25:02 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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I love the libs other fake word, manspaining:-)


9 posted on 10/04/2024 3:37:00 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Beintoocialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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That’s only a word on the Iberian peninsula.


10 posted on 10/04/2024 3:40:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Several of these “fact checking” sites were funded by left wing Democrat supporting organizations and promoted their beliefs while vilifying any truths that were not in line with theirs. Snopes claimed to be non biased but in the end was found to have severe left wing ties. Media Matters and Politifact are welded to Soros’ funding.


11 posted on 10/04/2024 3:43:05 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Indeed.


12 posted on 10/04/2024 3:43:31 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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In fact, I’d say the entire left wing is being funded by Gyorgy boy.


13 posted on 10/04/2024 3:44:28 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

Fart checkers are a joke when they work for the “media mafioso” that they fart checking on.


14 posted on 10/04/2024 3:46:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New "American Dream"! U.S. taxpayer financed - "ASYLUM" for foreign fugitives.)
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How can one who denies the existence of Truth be a fact checker?


15 posted on 10/04/2024 3:51:19 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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We may elect a President who is married to an abuser of women.
No one is digging into his history of assault on women.
Where is Mee Too? NYT?


16 posted on 10/04/2024 4:06:05 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: nickcarraway

Lie like a Democrat.

https://youtu.be/XyUw64MBPys?si=JrjOtAb1se9yTEtq


17 posted on 10/04/2024 5:16:00 PM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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me too died

cuz it was taking down too many lefties


18 posted on 10/04/2024 6:09:58 PM PDT by joshua c
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💯💯💯💯fact checkers are liberal censors…what an oxymoron…🤬🤬🤬


19 posted on 10/04/2024 7:50:27 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: nickcarraway

Along with misinformation and disinformation.


20 posted on 10/04/2024 10:57:50 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (fubar)
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