By doing 'fact checking' like this they they open themselves up to the charge that anything that doesn't have the little (!) meets some standard. Expect 10x more people @jack, @twittersupport etc... every time they see something they find misleading.
This is a bad move.
Interesting to see public information warefare playing out in real time.
The issue becomes with what fact checkers omit, who’s statements are scrutinized and whose are the ignored as “jokes”, what part of a statement they choose to focus on, or any sort of perspective at all. If you’re an adult you know that life is shades of gray.
Was Biden being racist when he said “you ain’t black” if Blacks don’t vote for him? How would a fact checker properly handle this?
“Fact checking“ even with the best intentions, is it game I don’t think we want to play.
> Interesting to see public information warefare playing out in real time.
Agreed
Also, the US previously had the fairness doctrine which seems to have worked well in comparison with this era without it (though I have not done much research into it, and I can see how an administration like the one we have today would abuse it).