Just The Facts, Ma'am: The Vatican Embassy Closing
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Fact-checking is a decadent industry. Mainstream fact-checkers at the Washington Post and PolitiFact rate politicians' claims on multi-point scales ranging from "Pants On Fire" to "The Geppetto Checkmark." To manage these multi-point scales, fact-checkers must resort to subjective measurements of "relevant information" and "context" in order to determine whether a statement is "true" or merely "mostly true" or somewhere south of true. Unfortunately, these are fundamentally subjective judgments, and the fact-checkers' fact-checks more often reveal their own biases than they reveal the truth. Indeed,
Just The Facts, Ma'am: The Vatican Embassy Closing
Just The Facts, Ma'am: The Vatican Embassy…
Just The Facts, Ma'am: The Vatican Embassy Closing
Fact-checking is a decadent industry. Mainstream fact-checkers at the Washington Post and PolitiFact rate politicians' claims on multi-point scales ranging from "Pants On Fire" to "The Geppetto Checkmark." To manage these multi-point scales, fact-checkers must resort to subjective measurements of "relevant information" and "context" in order to determine whether a statement is "true" or merely "mostly true" or somewhere south of true. Unfortunately, these are fundamentally subjective judgments, and the fact-checkers' fact-checks more often reveal their own biases than they reveal the truth. Indeed,