Becket Adams: The Professional Fact-Check Is Dead

Word.

   The Washington Post "Fact-Checker" was just more Washington Post.

   I went to a talk by three journalism/SComm profs at my university ca. late 2019(?). They all sang from the same hymnal: trust the MSM and the fact-checkers. Afterward, I went up and showed them the search I had done on Russian "collusion" at one of the big fact-checkers...all ten results on the first page ruled that Trump was wrong...eight of those ten had been proven wrong in the previous couple of months e.g. by the Mueller Report. Turned out that two of the three were late for meetings...

   The decline and fall of Snopes was particularly sad, I thought.