The trouble with fact checkers was quite evident in the Trump-Harris debate.
As a Harris supporter, I actually agree, I think it was way too heavy handed and hurt Harris more than helped. I’m not sure anymore what the goal of fact checking is (I’ve always felt it was somewhat dubious if not done extremely well).
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Non-American here (i.e. did not watch the debate), what trouble became evident?
Were they fact-checking too much? Not enough? Incorrectly?
Only one side was fact checked.
Was it the side that did the vast majority of the lying?
Yeah, the problem is that if one side tells 100 lies, and the other tells 1 lie, you can't correct all 100 lies, but if you only correct the most egregious lies then statistically you'll only be correcting the one side, and if you correct 1 lie from each side, then you make it seem like both sides lie equally. The Gish Gallop wins again.
Especially for live fact checking the greater the number of lies and the more obvious/blatant those lies are the more likely someone is to get fact checked.
We would have to fact check if those numbers are correct.
Oh wait, fact checkers don't work, better just inform yourself and make up your own mind, and don't just believe some supposedly authoritarian figures.
This is the problem, you are clearly biased. She brought up the Charlottesville issue that has been widely debunked; it is blatantly false and well-known to be false. She was not fact-checked. That's the issue.
Only one side made claims like it being legal to abort babies post-birth.
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This is a bit like the movie posters that quote "best movie of the year" when the full quote is "not the best movie of the year".
Go back a sentence.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-virginia-go...
> “where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s non viable” he said. “If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.”
Your dying grandma may go DNR, but that doesn’t mean murdering grandmas is broadly legal.
My wife does charity photography for https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/. You see lots of this sort of withdrawal of care. Calling it an abortion is cruel and dumb.
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