“Fact checkers.” You can’t live with ’em, you can’t live…with them, actually. They are worse than useless.
By now we all know, as unfortunately many still-naive Americans don’t–that “fact checking” means nothing more than “Narrative™ policing.” Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they get it wrong, but at all times the goal is not to illuminate and provide context, but to sell a Narrative™ that is intended to supplant reality instead of buttress it.
President Trump was spot-on about the $8 million wasted on absurd transgender mouse experiments. The NIH, under Biden, threw taxpayer dollars at pointless projects like studying testosterone’s impact on mice and hormone therapy’s effect on HIV vaccines. CNN tried to dismiss…
— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) March 5, 2025
The latest example of this is CNN’s immediate publication of a “fact check” disputing…
