Do We Really Need a 'Fact-Check' Industry?
We Can Fact-Check Everything Ourselves Rather than Rely on Biased Censors
It is already proven with multiple data, and for smarter part of us it was obvious for a while that so-called 'fact-check' industry is nothing else but a practical tool for American Democratic party propaganda and censorship. That is, 'fact-checkers' don't really do neutral unbiased fact-check, but discredit (mostly falsely) Democrats' political opponents and their sources as 'not trustworthy' so people would believe ONLY Leftist, Democrat leaning mainstream media like CNN and New York Times, and disregard anything penned say by New York Post or Fox News as 'conspiracy theory' or 'Russian misinformation' (though why only Russian I wonder and not say Chinese one - also Russophobic bias of Leftists and their 'fact-checkers'?) This allows American Demon Rats to effectively censor true stories told by their opponents (like Hunter Biden laptop story of COVID lab leak theory) while pushing their OWN actual conspiracy theories unhindered (hello Russiagate - NEVER fact-checked, actually!)
This propaganda actually worked hilariously since majority of gullible people both inside and outside US still trust Left-leaning sources a lot while taking everything posted in 'right-wing' ones with a grain of salt (and that DESPITE abovementioned Russiagate, Hunter Biden laptop and COVID lab leak!). That HUGE bias in public perception is largely due to censoring work of those 'fact-checkers' like Snopes, Reuters, FB ' independent fact-checkers', etc.
How their 'fact-check' really works? Notice that in MOST OF THE CASES they 'fact-check' 'right-wing' sources and ALMOST NEVER - Left-wing ones, so there is a selection bias at play from the very beginning of 'fact-checking' process. Second, there's not only political bias with regard to the source but an ideological bias with regard to the 'fact-checked' content. That is, it is mostly anti-establishment and particularly anti-Leftist content (since Demon Rats = establishment, with all their institutional power) which gets 'fact-checked', and NEVER establishment and Democratic agenda. that also explains why all the content critical of COVID scam policies were censored while establishment COVID misinformation wasn't, for example. So, there is BOTH political and ideological bias at play during so-called 'fact-check.
Now, how 'fact-check' itself works? Again, their main goal is not to do an actual fact-check but to DISCREDIT and CENSOR the content Democratic establishment and corporate billionaire elite behind them does NOT want you to see. It's crucial to understand the technique of this 'fact-check'.
In a nutshell, the main point is to mark undesirable by the elite content as 'partially untrue' or 'missing context' NO MATTER WHAT. Because that already would create certain bias in public perception, turning many people away from this content, even if it 'misses' just a very small and mostly unrelated detail, But 'fact-checker's said it's missing context', hence, it's 'untrustworthy' - gullible dummies would think. Profit.
Again, 'missing context' and 'partly false' are VERY LOOSE and VAGUE categories. For example, source said a victim of the crime was smoking cigarettes but forgot to mention particular brand of cigarettes? 'Missing context', even if this brand info is insignificant and completely unrelated to the crime case at hand but STILL allows 'fact-checkers' to mark it as 'missing context'. And this is, as I had shown earlier, ALL THEY NEED. See all the diabolic strategy?
Now, we know that fact-checkers are evil scammers, censors and propagandists at the service of American Democratic party, so what to do about them? To make fact-check bipartisan? So, in addition to censoring say true info on COVID, climate and trans insanity, we'd get censoring on say atheist anti-religious content and abortion? Not sure it's much better. Then what, to make fact-check independent and, hence, more objective and neutral? First of all, it's hard of fuck now when almost EVERYTHING in US is BOTH partisan and billionaire bought. Second, even if you'd be able to achieve it, WHERE is the guarantee 'fact-checkers' wouldn't relapse into their past toxic habits after they regained a public trust? No guarantees.
Hence, I have more efficient albeit radical solution. We need to GET RID of 'fact-check' industry ALTOGETHER! Indeed, WHY do we people need those 'fact-checkers' at all? Can't we OURSELVES do ALL the necessary fact-check and independent research? Can't we OURSELVES fact-check every claim made in certain news source? I mean, we can read, Google and analyze information, or can't we? Hence, WHY do we need those 'fact-checkers' exactly, please do tell me? When we can do all the job by ourselves why do we need to depend on some sleazy biased people for it, and waste a LOT OF MONEY and resources on their 'work' in addition? Again, 'fact-check' industry is a HUGE waste of our money and resource at best and evil propaganda and censorship at worst. Either way, we don't need this shit and can do it all by ourselves.
But 'people aren't experts', they couldn't do a fact-check, Democratic gullible dummies would scream. Well, does one have to be an expert to Google? Not really. Also, had you actually read any of those -fact-checks'? I had read many, and there is NOTHING which I couldn't do MYSELF, and MUCH BETTER as such. So why exactly should we waste so much resource on this totally unnecessary 'fact-check' which is used to censor rather than fact-check in addition?
Again, the ONLY group of people who actually might need a 'fact-check' industry is LAZY PEOPLE. People TOO LAZY to Google and fact-check themselves and who rather prefer someone to do the job for them so they'd just look at ready results. The problem with that approach is when you do NOT do a fact-check YOURSELVES, you cannot BE SURE that actual fact-check was done, and have to completely RELY on 'fact-checkers', excessively trust them and depend on them. In our age of propaganda and misinformation, ironically, to TRUST ANYONE is the worst mistake we can make. Hence, we should do ALL the necessary fact-check by ourselves. Also, I do NOT personally approve of laziness and idle people and I believe that it is idle people who need to learn how to Google finally rather than we all should depend on Leftist censors and propagandists who control all our information. Fuck this shit.
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