Fact checkers have always existed. We used to call them journalists. The sudden emergence of the "fact checking" industry was simply the media's desperate response to their own cratering credibility. No one trusts journos anymore, so they created a new "super serious" class of journos who totally deserve your absolute reverence. It's all just coercive branding for Journalism version 2.0, which is even more corrupt and dishonest than Journalism Classic.
Being a “fact checker” is just a poor joke anymore. It holds the same weight as Instagram model.
Fact checkers have always existed. We used to call them journalists. The sudden emergence of the "fact checking" industry was simply the media's desperate response to their own cratering credibility. No one trusts journos anymore, so they created a new "super serious" class of journos who totally deserve your absolute reverence. It's all just coercive branding for Journalism version 2.0, which is even more corrupt and dishonest than Journalism Classic.
And yet, these are the people they trust to declare something misinformation.
They've been attacking him for 5+ years now...
quick rundown on this character? Always figured he is a subversive one
If someone asked me what "arguing the unprincipled exception" is I'd just point to his substack.