Professional fact-checking about as broken as professional journalism
If I were to, say, swipe your grandfather’s copy of “See, I Told You So” by Rush Limbaugh from his den, and then mail him a gift card good for a portion of the price of an Amazon Kindle, I think your grandfather would be well within his rights to call me a thief and possibly a communist. Politifact disagrees, apparently, as Democrats have been accused of telling the “lie of the year” for arguing that a vote to replace Medicare with a private ... Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Google News (Fact Check)
Both Politifact and FactCheck have a talented staff of analysts. Without knowing them personally, we know who they are and when their advice is not being heeded due to internal political considerations. I believe a much better system was being developed here at Truthsquad with the crowdsourcing concept where dissenting opinions were published and when the verdict reflected the majority opinion.