Re:Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking
by skinkestek on Monday May 10, 2021 @04:23PM
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Take the local one here, faktisk.no:
They'll do real fact checks, but are very selective on what to fact check.
So a journalist from the state broadcasting service states on TV that "these soldiers will shoot at anything that moves".
She says that about what is known by everyone who has a clue to be some of the more restricive and professional soldiers that exist.
Will it be fact checked if I submit it?
No. I tried.
They'd rather publish a bunch of factual but funny and trivial fact checks than pointing out that a mainstream reporter is - at least in my opinion - lying through her teeth to make people hate a certain small nation.
They'll do real fact checks, but are very selective on what to fact check.
So a journalist from the state broadcasting service states on TV that "these soldiers will shoot at anything that moves".
She says that about what is known by everyone who has a clue to be some of the more restricive and professional soldiers that exist.
Will it be fact checked if I submit it?
No. I tried.
They'd rather publish a bunch of factual but funny and trivial fact checks than pointing out that a mainstream reporter is - at least in my opinion - lying through her teeth to make people hate a certain small nation.