Bill Adair, a founder of PolitiFact, has a new piece at Nieman Lab on predictions for 2024. He complained that “fact-checking is failing,” that the old standard of posting your fact checks on a website isn’t working. The old standard of “informing democracy” isn’t working, and he’s upset that “it’s pretty clear from the research that Republicans distrust political fact-checking.”
But the problem isn’t correcting their obvious tilt, it’s that their suppression isn’t energetic enough. The conservatives are not converted! Former New York Times political analyst Nate Silver threw a “Yikes on every level” at this article!
Fact-checkers ought to “think more like marketers”, abandon the goal of merely “informing democracy” and work with social media companies to “suppress misinformation”? Yikes on every level. This doesn’t sound like journalism.
