[falcor84]

> Everyone is caught making false statements

That is too postmodern for my tastes. I would strongly argue that one can speak without making false statements, and would be very much in favor of some sort of fact-checking badge on social media. It would be difficult, but I really believe it would be worth it.

[Mountain_Skies]

Who watches the watchers?

So far pretty much every fact checking organization, regardless of original intent, eventually succumbs to the temptation to bend their fact checking to their ideological preference.

There is no social media company that has the credibility to even be taken seriously as a impartial arbiter of fact.

[stickfigure]

Yet everyone does not like equally, not by a longshot. We have sites like snopes and polifact. Maybe not perfect, but better than postmodern nonsense like "there is no truth".

[cwkoss]

This elevation of the credibility of snopes and politifact would make it more damaging when they choose to editorialize.

People who share political ideologies with these sites tend to overestimate their accuracy and underestimate their displayed bias.

[input_sh]

Or, you know, the truth leans heavily on one side, considering that there's not a single one even remotely relevant fact checking organization on the other one.

[cwkoss]

I assure you, if you believe this, you're being frequently misled.

Don't get me wrong, I think these sources are more accurate than many journalistic institutions, but they are not infallible or completely unbiased.

[input_sh]

Did I claim that they were unbiased or did I claim that the concepts like truth, facts, and research lean heavily towards one side?