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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 28 points 2 months ago

Honestly its probably for the best. When people started investigating the "Fact checkers", it was discovered that they didn't know anything about the checks that were attributed to them.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

I mean that's a problem... but it sounds like the problem gets worse.

Realistically fact checking always lies in the problem of how do we know the fact checkers aren't corrupted. Unfortunately popular vote seems just as dangerous way of trying to back it.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Fact checkers don't have to be expert on the subject, often all it requires is some googling and a quick glimpse at some research paper.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Huh. Facebook would never either knowingly or because they are money grubbing POSs hire incompetent fact checkers and then when their incompetency comes to light use that as an excuse to scrap the whole thing... Never!

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

The fact checkers were not incompetent, they weren't involved at all.

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