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by ck2 8 hours ago
Washington Post gave up tracking Trump lies last term in 2021 because it became impossible by human hands with 21+ per day and over 30,000 in their database

but with "AI" now it's possible not only to do non-stop but in REALTIME

you could even just restrict the source of the check to the paper's own reporting the past fifty years

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...

I'd like to see that backfilled, all the way back to the "long form birth certificate" (remember that horror show)
1 comments
BugsJustFindMe 8 hours ago
I'm not sure AI helps for that particular task. If you just assume that 100% of everything he says is a lie you'll be 99% correct. Anyone who believes anything he says at this point is living in a constructed reality where facts never matter. Fact checking seems more useful for less pathological cases where it might make a difference.
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hunterpayne 7 hours ago
Cool, now do Fauci...

PS I've always assumed all politicians lie, I'm sure you don't think Pelosi or Bush Jr for example were some paragons of truth. Doesn't make it OK, but have some perspective.

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BugsJustFindMe 7 hours ago
> I've always assumed all politicians lie

Everyone lies at various points to some degree or another, ranging from well-intentioned to malignant, and it takes tremendous sleight of hand to pretend that they're even close to comparable.

> Cool, now do [1] Fauci...

[1] Lied that PPE had no value for the public which he admitted later he did to try to preserve limited supplies for healthcare workers. Lied about the possibility of a lab leak having been the origin of COVID19.

> [2] Bush Jr, [3] Pelosi

[2] Lied about Iraq having WMDs and being connected to al-Qaeda to start a war. Built a torture program.

[3] Used insider information to make money. Maybe also knew about the Bush torture program but didn't do anything to stop it if so.

If you had to rank those three, what order would you place them in?

> have some perspective.

Indeed. Perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements...

> Doesn't make it OK, but

Why the "but"? Are you justifying something? The difference between your framework and mine is that my framework statement ends with a period after "Doesn't make it OK."

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