Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

The only useful tool to ensure that anyone providing a product or a service does so with minimum standards of quality and reliability (or veracity in this case) is strict liability. When someone calls up so-called fact-checkers in order to moderate content and makes decisions based on the recommendations of the fact-checkers, they are not disinterested third parties. Strict liability should apply. The courts should settle claims. It’s time that everyone plays by the same rules.

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

This is a re-post from the CO2 Coalition, here. Re-posted with permission. [Ed. Note] The number of opinion pieces disguised as “Fact Checks,” and the use of them to censor one side of …

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