The fact-check industry is more liberal media activism than objective fact checking
The checkers are not the unbiased arbiters of truth; they are useful distractions, groups social media can use to absolve itself of responsibility.
Glenn Greenwald has fact checked the fact checkers. His conclusion: more liberal media activism than objective fact checking. Something many of us have experienced first hand. I'll trust Glenn's research and findings, but not fact checkers working for liberal media. Too many simply back the Biden administration's version of reality even when the evidence says otherwise.
Facebook admitted the truth: The “fact checks” that social media use to police what Americans read and watch are just “opinion.” The fact-check industry is funded by liberal moguls such as George Soros, government-funded nonprofits and the tech giants themselves. The checkers are not the unbiased arbiters of truth; they are useful distractions, groups social media can use to absolve itself of responsibility. Free speech be damned.
Glenn Greenwald is one of the three co-founding editors of The Intercept. He left The Intercept in October 2020. Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law. His most recent book, “No Place to Hide,” is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding The Intercept, Greenwald’s column was featured in The Guardian and Salon. He was the debut winner, along with “Democracy Now’s” Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win); and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named Greenwald one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for The Guardian was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.