[pessimizer]

> and, second, teachers really are paid less on a per hour basis than the OECD average which makes your statistic super misleading.

Do you see how this turns into editorial really fast?

The WaPo and Politifact are particularly trash "fact check" brands. They're pure editorials.

edit: To hopefully ward off reflexive political downvotes: my politics are the opposite of rayiner's, I have the opposite opinion on what teacher pay should be, and certainly would argue about what the historical record shows about it. I wouldn't have my argument pop up in a tooltip when you mouse over rayiner's comment, and I certainly wouldn't call it a "fact check."

[SpicyLemonZest]

For the record, I agree with the general point of your comment - my concern is primarily that calling things "trash" tends to degrade the quality of discussion.

[pessimizer]

I only say it because I mean it. It's important to distinguish "fact checks" that are bad because the "fact check" label is bad from "fact checks" that are intentionally misleading and usually contain more misinformation than the statements they're purporting to correct.