[prasadjoglekar]

Well, "fact checkers" like Politifact are precisely what are considered biased themselves. Sampling from a biased dataset still shows the same bias.

https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/items/8f9a6f3b-efd7-46f3-b4be...

You may be aligned with the alleged or real partisanship of Politifact, so to you there's no problem here. But team Harris and Buttigieg lost the election.

Hence these consequences (from Wikipedia):

In January 2025, Mark Zuckerberg announced an end to Meta's eight-year partnership with PolitiFact, claiming that "fact checkers have just been too politically biased."[62][63

[ImPostingOnHN]

Most everything is "considered biased" by some people. In this case, Zuckerberg and the Bain employee who authored that report are indeed people -- 2 out of billions.

Consider an alternative framing, "fact checkers like Politifact are precisely what are considered UNbiased". It is at least as true (because at least 2 people consider it to be so).

Given that framing alternative to yours: what, if anything, should we do anything about the situation?

How do you think framing, rather than substance, affects that discussion?

[noelwelsh]

This is a great example of the issue the blog post is addressing, namely:

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

The play book is:

1. Set an impossible standard (an undefined "unbiased" fact checker)

2. When impossible standard cannot be reached, throw toys out of the pram

Meanwhile, egregious levels of bullshit now go unchallenged.

[brookst]

Yeah it’s just the seat belt fallacy: seatbelts are useless because people still die in car crashes.

Somehow our whole society has fallen for the “unless you can point to a perfect saint who has never done any wrong, we might as well be led by active criminals” pitch. It’s so nihilistic.

[littlestymaar]

> In January 2025, Mark Zuckerberg announced an end to Meta's eight-year partnership with PolitiFact, claiming that "fact checkers have just been too politically biased."[62][63

No relationship with the fact that Trump became president again in Jan 2025 with Zuckerberg giving money to his inauguration, obviously.