Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by dane-pgp on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:49PM
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> unelected “fact checkers”
You're right to point out the dangers of entrusting an unaccountable group with the responsibility of determining what is and isn't true, but I'm not sure that electing the fact checkers would improve their accuracy.
Also, if you think it is suspicious that people in one political party make statements that are deemed lies, your problem might not be with the checkers.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by xienze on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:23PM
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> Also, if you think it is suspicious that people in one political party make statements that are deemed lies, your problem might not be with the checkers.
Come on, I could easily remove context and/or provide a misleading "authoritative" interpretation to basically anything a Democrat says in order to brand it a lie. How new are you to this game?
Well obviously that would be unelected “fact checkers” who aren’t held accountable for anything and suspiciously seem to find nearly everything said by people in one particular political party to be “pants on fire” lies.