Re: scientists are going to bluesky

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, JAB wrote:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:43:37 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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That's nonsense. Fact checkers are human, and being represented as the
judges of what is fact or not, gives them enormous power, and enormous
potential for corruptability.

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"You don't have to blindly believe fact-checkers because you
can look at their sources and verify what they are saying! You can
also cross-check multiple fact-checkers to see if they are in
agreement or if one has uncovered information that the others missed."
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That makes them redundant, since that is what I expect of the media outlets I consume. Therefore they just add to the burden, and become a politicized weapon. Especially when different fact checkers come to different conclusions. So paradoxically I'd argue that they actually do more to obfuscate, than to help.