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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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My only issue is that even facts can be spun. If there's going to be fact checkers, they themselves need to be routinely checked and their biases listed.
Also OP, I've checked your post history and can see a fair few news articles about conflicts over the world but zero mention of Gaza in any of them - is that your bias?
Edit: Yeah, I've now been shown some decent enough confirmation that OP is a Zionist and promotes disinformation. Case in point, agenda driven fact checking is an issue and we cannot trust random sources who proclaim to be such.
There are many competing fact checkers. Compare their fact checking.
If we have to manually fact check the fact checkers ourselves, it defeats the purpose of them in the first place.
The burden of proof and discovery makes the goal of information too complicated for many. The more complex a system, the more it's likely to fail.
And when it's a technochristofascist authoritarian government or it's media allies being the 'fact' checker? We cannot rely on institutions or arbiters as the gate keepers of accuracy.
My solution would be to teach people to be skeptical, how to recognise biases, and how to fact check on their own.
This assumes that there is an objective and 100% contextualized truth, which is never the case. Getting a free frogurt seems unquestionably a boon, until you learn it's cursed and contains potassium benzoate.
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Personally, I think it's annoying that this got down votes. It's short and dismissive, but it's correct. Sometimes it's just not worth longer answers.
Also, some arguments should be dismissed, just ask a judge.