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by halpiamaquark 3475 days ago
The kosher fact checkers list includes the biased and opinion-based Politifact and Snopes.
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We detached this trainwreck of a subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13186829 and marked it off-topic.
Fact check please.
They aren't. You'll have to provide evidence for your claim.
Let's see some statistical analysis that the fact checkers FB claims are disinterested arbiters of fact aren't in fact pushing an agenda before we go along with censorship maybe.
I'm not willing to call it censorship, and you still haven't provided evidence for your claim that two routinely considered reputable fact checkers aren't.
Can you supply any concrete examples of fact checkers that have undergone such rigorous evaluation?
Let me guess: any source which doesn't corroborate your worldview is biased.
Politifact and Snopes push their opinionated worldview as though it is objectively true and morally righteous.
> Your belief is that Politifact and Snopes push their opinionated worldview as though it is objectively true and morally righteous.

Wouldn't want to be guilty of the same sin, right?

I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact.

Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores.

Given this:

> I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact.

...all I can say to this:

> Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores.

...is quelle surprise.

Were you expecting some other outcome?

My argument is very simple but you apparently misunderstand.

morgante guessed that I reject fact checking simply if it doesn't confirm my worldview.

I rebutted that the fact checkers in question aren't simply disproving my worldview. Rather they are advancing an opinion-based counter-narrative under the guise of objectivity.

You replied and suggested that I should be held to the same standard as a purported arbiter of truth.

I rebutted that I do not claim to be a sterile, objective source of bald fact-checking. And a major news consumption platform is not appending my opinions to people's feeds and elevating my opinions to objective status. My opinions-masquerading-as-fact won't be advanced by Facebook as evidence of the disreputability of those I disagree with.

You replied incoherently as far as I can tell.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.