Rick Wood /Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP. Kalev Leetaru, in his piece inaugurating RealClearPolitics' Fact Check Review, highlighted some of the problems inherent to fact checking as it is being conducted today.
Fact checkers, for example, have the habit of "Checking" subjective opinions rather than verifiable facts.
Also problematic are some of the processes used by the fact checkers.
Since the methodology is treated by the fact checkers as propriety information, this leaves the reader wondering what standards the fact checkers use when rendering their verdicts.
Why are we told that a simple truth requires more context? What moves the lever between "Half true" and "Mostly false"? These would be merely philosophical questions if not for the awesome power fact checkers hold over information sharing.
A supporter of universal background checks on firearm sales, Bullock asserted that one-quarter of guns are sold without background checks.
Fact checkers have the unique ability to prevent the flow of information.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/17/a_tale_of_two_fact_checks_137054.html
Fact checkers, for example, have the habit of "Checking" subjective opinions rather than verifiable facts.
Also problematic are some of the processes used by the fact checkers.
Since the methodology is treated by the fact checkers as propriety information, this leaves the reader wondering what standards the fact checkers use when rendering their verdicts.
Why are we told that a simple truth requires more context? What moves the lever between "Half true" and "Mostly false"? These would be merely philosophical questions if not for the awesome power fact checkers hold over information sharing.
A supporter of universal background checks on firearm sales, Bullock asserted that one-quarter of guns are sold without background checks.
Fact checkers have the unique ability to prevent the flow of information.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/17/a_tale_of_two_fact_checks_137054.html
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