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by onlydeadheroes 2746 days ago
Or maybe we are not prejudging enough.

"If an organization like Snopes feels it is ok to hire partisan employees who have run for public office on behalf of a particular political party and employ them as fact checkers where they have a high likelihood of being asked to weigh in on material aligned with or contrary to their views, how can they reasonably be expected to act as neutral arbitrators of the truth?"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...

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Or maybe we are just focusing on who is weighing in on matters instead of measuring it ourselves.
We went from

"Except the site specifically tries to debunk incorrect narratives"

to

"employees who have run for public office on behalf of a particular political party and employ them as fact checkers"

I think we achieved something important here, in spite of it all.