BBC’s “fact checker” gets fact checked
(citizenjournos.com)
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Fact checking doesn't mean making sure it's the truth anymore. Not that it ever did, I guess.
I bet if we look back at media coverage from the 80s and 90s, I bet we were lied to just as much.
It's the Lionel Hutz The truth and not, the truth.
It's hard to say, but one thing that's different now is how blatant they are about it. Maybe it's just because there's alternate sources of information out there now, but it's hard to imagine the mostly peaceful shit flying back then.
Part of it is that there was a "technical" mindset to it in the past. It was always fake in the sense that it was ultimately designed to push some powerful group or person's agenda with a veneer of respectability, but there were lots of people in the field who actually believed in the false image and tried to do their best. It's degradation tracks with much of the degeneracy of the Western world. As feminine voices gained prominence and power, masculine, technical minded people left the field. Any attempt at making it a "hard science" type industry was lost and it's become all about feels and what the collective wants. Instead of "holding truth to power" it's "identify the biggest Alpha in the room and do their bidding".
Anyway this interview always comes to mind when asked if we were lied to as much in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwerBZG83YM
It's very likely why internet 2.0 has been corporatized and condensed so much.
Sure there are plenty of sites to visit and talk about things, or just discuss random things. But if it's not the big 5 corporate owned ones, you'll never get exposure to the bigger picture where everyone else is.
Even if it's those few sites are just drip feeding you lies.
''guy who checks and verifies online content for a living'' - as if ''fact checker'' alone didn't sound faggy and retarded enough.