Misguided idea, imo. Trying to "fact-check" whatever one encounters (because it's digital) is counterproductive and, frankly, an authoritarian impulse. Plus, journalists should NOT be reporting on everything they can access. News value and public interest, not gossip and prying.https://twitter.com/NiemanLab/status/1359934480417501185 …
But how do you even decide what's a "fact" to intervene in real-time, ephemeral conversations? And what do you get out of it? I cannot imagine being able to convince too many people, and I can totally imagine scenarios in which this both backfires and creates a weird certainty.
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But not from fact-checkers! I don't disagree people change their views. But it's not some outside process fact-checkers can elbow their way in most of the time.
End of conversation
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