[malfist]

I get the feeling you haven't watched Jon Oliver. He does deep dives on relevant issues and does a ton of research. I was recently interviewed about his process and it's pretty enlightening. He complains about how activists often twists perfectly good data to make a point but under scrutiny it falls apart, even if the original data would have been good enough.

He's about as far from a hot takes engine as you could get

[rolandog]

I think you may be referring to the Lulu Garcia-Navarro interview [0]. It's so good! I was pleasantly surprised to hear that they have 12 researchers (fact-checkers) and a bunch of lawyers (in addition to the writers) that are working on ensuring the accuracy of the episodes.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Q9kNMJ8SguQ

[kolbe]

He's high quality research by comparison to the absolute garbage that exists today--not by say classical Frontline or 60 Minutes standards