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Fact-Checking Is Killing Us
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fact-checking-is-killing-us
Moderators fact-check the debate and we’re worse off for it
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fact-checking-is-killing-us
Moderators fact-check the debate and we’re worse off for it
The article is saying that fact checks don't help, when the candidates rule lawyer their way into turning a false statement into a fact.
By any objective measure Kamala Harris's comment about no US troops being in a war zone is false. Fact checkers say its true, because a bunch of Adderall addled lanyards have redefined the key words in this statement to make it technically true.
By any objective measure, a fact checker should be taking Kamala to task for repeating propaganda about October 7th. But no one will.
I don't think this article objects to candidates being factual, as much as it points out that what our media does is not actually checking facts.