[andrewdb]

Relevant: Brandolini's Law

"The amount of energy needed to refute misinformation is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it."

It can take ~15 minutes to create a Twitter post containing misinformation, but a team of fact checkers can invest hours/days/weeks into the post. The fact checkers research the topic and write a refutation that's well-sourced and hopefully as objective as possible. Meanwhile, there are 1,000 more posts freshly minted with exciting new misinformation.

[esja]

But the fact-checkers don’t spend that required time, because it’s too expensive.