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When it comes to improving fact-checking, most of the focus tends to be on how fact checkers select the claims they examine, the sources they turn to in determining “truth” and the strength of their arguments. While it receives less attention, the editorializing language fact checkers use can be just as harmful to the public’s trust in their work. Browse through the first five pages of FactCheck.org’s Barack Obama archive and fact checks of the former president’s statements are headlined with relatively clinical terms such as “misrepresents,” “misleading” and “cherry-picks.” In contrast, the first five pages of the site’s Donald...

I just visited this newsgroup and saw several posters there who I'm familliar with from other internet sources. They are extremely good thinkers technically, but seem to be inundated with "Donk Noise". news://news.securecomp.org/thetable If one or several of you would pay it a (respectful) visit I would consider it to be a true service to conservatism. There is much good that can be done there! Thanks for your time, and my apologies for the vanity. I do believe there are a few important and influential people who read this newsgroup, and it could use some of your expert input.

Has anyone been to a Newsgroup? Google allows you to search newsgroups. I've look at political news groups and they are quite vitrolic, especially from the left. The left shows no class, empathy, and respect. Makes me wonder about the left.