a fun fact is that at no point in this piece does the author actually identify any democrats or liberals who think fact checking is a *political strategy* that wins elections
A decade of myth-busting has had next to zero impact on Donald Trump’s electoral viability.
He's probably a former high school debater having a hard time coming to grips with the real world.
Very funny he is on sabbatical which usually entails working on a book or research project, instead, he just spends all his time on social media with an occasional Atlantic piece trying to trigger the libs
If liberals believe that fact-checking is a "political strategy" that wins elections... ...then clearly the media does not have a "liberal bias". Glad we cleared that up.
"Do you swear to employ a strategy of telling the truth, so help you God?"
It's not a political strategy it's a job the media should be doing
Sure it does, identifies "some Democrats." What do you want, some kind of identification of who those Democrats are, how numerous they are, or what they actually said?
If fact checking is a liberal political strategy to win elections, the media has failed at every turn to do their job. Holding politicians accountable is a tenement of Democracy. If one party is 80% truthful & the other is 10%, it’s not the medias job to bend to the will of the latter.
Fact-checking is only relevant (regardless of whether it "works" or not) When everyone agrees there are such things as facts. In an autocracy, facts are irrelevant, only belief matters.