The very notion of fact-checking is under assault by a wide array of fact-challenged politicians and interest groups.
But President-elect Donald Trump, who keeps fact-checkers busy and hates being corrected by them, welcomed Meta’s changes.
“This is a blow to our website and the work that we do,” Jesse Stiller, managing editor of Check Your Fact, told CNN.
journalists have an obligation to call out presidential candidates when they lie.”Then as now, Trump’s firehose of falsehood was the issue.
Duke noted community users were also not bound by ethical guidelines to provide fair and accurate fact checks.
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