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1 posted on 06/13/2023 6:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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And:

In a 2020 fact check, for instance, the Times accused Arkansas senator Tom Cotton of flirting with conspiracy theories when the Republican suggested that COVID-19 may have originated in a Chinese research lab. Federal investigations have since corroborated the lab leak theory Cotton promoted.

Fact checkers working for Facebook, meanwhile, last year erroneously designated as misinformation a Free Beacon report on Biden's Department of Health and Human Services, which was set to fund the distribution of safe smoking kits with crack pipes. Facebook's fact checker, Lead Stories, kept the piece in place even after the Free Beacon proved that federally-funded harm reduction organizations distributed crack pipes.

Fact checkers have even gone as far as to tell readers how they can (and can't) respond to factual information. When the Free Beacon in July reported that the Biden administration sold one million Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels to a Chinese state-controlled gas giant, the Washington Post acknowledged in a subsequent fact check that the sale happened. Still, the Post's Glenn Kessler wrote, there's "no reason for outrage" and "anyone who suggests the Biden administration is doing something wrong here … earns Three Pinocchios."


2 posted on 06/13/2023 6:16:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I tried to explain this 15 years ago (elsewhere) to some regarding Snopes. During the run-up to Obama.

Basically to no avail.


3 posted on 06/13/2023 6:18:33 AM 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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And a lot of these limited information voters are independents and republicans.
Many of my pub acquaintances still know nothing of the Burisma scandal.


5 posted on 06/13/2023 6:37:10 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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From the linked Washington Free Beacon article:

One of the few fact checkers who contributed to Republicans seemingly felt the need to obscure her identity—the Google employee listed her address as "123 No Name Drive." Conservative tech employees have long said they feel the need to self-censor their views

More evidence of the "tolerance" of the leftists - if you don't agree with them, you live in fear of being fired, ostracized, or even assaulted by them.

7 posted on 06/13/2023 6:45:42 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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The contemporary meaning of "Fact Checker" is one whose role to establish the dogma of the ruling social/economic/political class at that moment as the tautological truth, without any regard for counter evidence or contradictions with previous positions.

These "Fact Checkers" are real life manifestations of Orwell's MINITRUE.

10 posted on 06/13/2023 6:59:39 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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Purer than Ivory Soap.


16 posted on 06/13/2023 7:33:54 AM PDT by rwa265
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Bernard Goldberg pointed out the liberal media bias in 2001 in his book aptly titled “Bias”. It was a seminal read for me, like someone finally turned the lights on in a dark room.
Of course, Back then in the good old days the ratio was only 93% liberal.
https://www.amazon.com/Bias-Insider-Exposes-Media-Distort/dp/0895261901


17 posted on 06/13/2023 9:33:08 AM PDT by Skid289 (In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. )
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