[stickyribs]

In your response to your last paragraph:

It’s a slippery slope and some fortune-telling to assume that Facebook and Twitter will not let you post based off potential incorrect facts. If anything, a caution or warning label regarding facts should offer the reader extra information. As MikeTheGreat has aptly highlighted, science is a self correcting paradigm that seeks to prove itself wrong. Old facts, tried and tested overtime, may seldom update but new and not well tested facts may evolve in due time.

Also, the claim that fact checkers are wrong more than they are right is a non-sequiter. Because the prevailing truth at the time of fact checking is the most accurate based off the current body of evidence. And as stated in my point above, our understanding of the truth crystallizes over time.

[slumdev]

Truth doesn't evolve.

What's true now was true a year ago, even if we didn't know it.

This idea of evolving truth is a mealy-mouthed way of saying, "We were wrong."

[akomtu]

"Truth doesn't evolve" is a profound statement. Is it from Hermes? The downvotes on your comment reminded me of one well known historical figure who told not to give jewels to the crowd as they would get agitated, because of ignorance, and try to lynch you.

[stickyribs]

I corrected my op to clear up ambiguity. What I meant was our understanding of “the truth” evolves and crystallizes over time. Not Truth itself (the truth I was referring to in my OP was our own truth about the truth). So, as we gather more data, revise our hypothesis, throw away wrong ideas and formulate new ones, we get a clearer picture.