The Facts About Fact-Checking - Politics - Utne Reader via @opironet
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Even if you value truth, it’s easy to be discouraged by reading these blogs. Their motive is a sound one—but to what end? If this sort of predatory fact-checking were actually effective for anything but sport, a great number of politicians would be out of business by now. This brandishing of “facts” is a gateway to laziness. Why produce thoughtful and coherent statements when you can just wield truth-bytes like weapons?