cracking water dam

:0)

*takes a sledgehammer to the dam*

launches a AGM-65 at the dam

The "fact checking" industry is the collection of journalistic groups that have grown in prominence since after 2016, and which now exercise an undeserved amount of power in controlling the flow of ideas, particularly on social media. Big Tech regularly uses them as the "final word" in determining whether or not to censor speech. While fact-checking groups on the internet originally provided some legitimate benefits to the public, in more recent years they have become transparently partisan in what they choose to "fact check", and also in regard to their conclusions, which regularly side with the political left. They have also made some flat-out incorrect conclusions, which raises the issue of the worth of such services in the first place.

the fact that there even needs to be "fact checking" should be a slap in the face to the actual field of journalism. It's even more than information becoming "partisan", much of what mainstream media reports never even happened at all.

You raise a good point that it is kind of odd that "fact checking" has separated from regular journalism to become a thing of its own.

Also, I didn't even mention that there's no guarantee that the journalists who do "fact checking" adequately understand the stories they're trying to cover. For example, a person with only a journalism degree might try to write a story about an area of science by interviewing certain scientists, but if the people interviewed aren't experts in the specific field, the entire story will be inadequate.

This is why the fact-checking industry is falling apart.

I wouldn’t have built it in the first place

BREAK IT DOWN!!

Drinking piss isn’t going to cure your Covid. Facts are facts.