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Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz are set to debate this Tuesday. Ahead of the Oct. 1 event, the broadcaster announced that moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan will not fact-check either candidate — Walz and Vance will be responsible for fact-checking one another. The news prompted political scientist Norman Ornstein to lament that though CBS was once “the gold standard for television news,” both “those days and their standards are long gone.”

Ornstein isn’t the only voice objecting to CBS’ announcement, with the condemnation of their choice widespread on social media after CNN previously declined to fact-check candidates during the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump earlier this year, followed by ABC opting to include brief fact-checks from moderators in the presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris.

According to CBS News’ editorial standards, the moderators are there to facilitate the conversation/debate between the candidates, as well as enforce the debate’s rules. However, they leave the responsibility to the candidates when it comes to fact-checking as part of the broadcast. CBS does plan to offer its own form of live fact-checking — but it will be online, rather than directly from the moderators, via its CBS News Confirmed Unit journalists in an online blog.

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Hook each VP candidate nuts to a car battery and every time they lie hit them with the full voltage.

Simple as.

[-] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago

too low voltage, recommend 10 batteries in series

[-] don@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

StyroPyro has entered the chat

[-] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Was thinking of that exact video when writing this lol

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[-] gramie@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

That's how batteries in series work.

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's why some devices have batteries in opposite directions. All they need is a piece of metal on one end, and a split on the other, and you went from 1.5 volts to 3. (1.5v for AA, AAA, C, D batteries)

[-] Deadrek@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Series increases voltage, parallel increases capacity. the more you know

[-] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

12 volts is nothing. You can bridge a car battery with your fingers and nothing happens.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I’ve seen this Reddit post before.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

It’s not a joke. Though you can feel free to keep making jokes, but seriously, think of a 9v battery and putting your tongue on it. A car battery is barely one more AA battery on top of that.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Have you seen the Reddit post where the guy attached the power supply to his freshly showered balls?

[-] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

A power supply is not a car battery. Either it wasn’t a car battery or it was fake. Literally go try it yourself. I’m not joking. Car batteries you literally can’t even feel if you bridge the terminals. There’s plenty on YouTube if you don’t believe me and choose to believe some random Reddit vid.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Okay so you’ve never see the video.

It’s not hard to admit.

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