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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Texacon on January 12, 2025, 10:00:10 AM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219896147
I was listening to Progressive Radio coming home from work Thursday and they proclaimed it was only conservatives who were crying about “Fact Checkers.”
They claimed that if you didn’t want fact checking then you were the problem. You just want to pass along misinformation.
:rotf:
IcyPeas
15 hrs ago
Do we need fact-checkers here at Democratic Underground?
Clouds Passing
1. We are fact checkers!
yardwork
51. Me too, and I usually appreciate it.
28 min ago
DU as a community generally doesn't tolerate factual errors. We argue over opinions, but I don't think that many outright falsehoods get amplified here.
Haggard Celine
6. DUers are good at looking for errors.
14 hrs ago
MAGAs don't care if their media are accurate, they just want a good story.
Fiendish Thingy
63. I have seen posts with provably false information rise to the top of the greatest page
47 sec ago
Despite being challenged by other DUers.
Folks only read the OP, assume it is true, and rec the post without reading other comments.
If the OP won’t edit or delete their post, the misinformation stands.
“A lie travels around the world before the truth can get its pants on”
I have seen posts, often including click bait videos, but also stand alone assertions by an OP, with misinformation about current events, constitutional or legal processes, election returns, even false reports of deaths of famous people and politicians, all get numerous recs.
It’s all within the DU TOS.
More hilarity at the link. I’m on my phone and it’s hard to bring over.
KC
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Clouds Passing
1. We are fact checkers!
Fricken hillarious! :lmao:
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Actual fact checkers would significantly shrink DU posts and threads database, :rotf: .
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Clouds Passing
1. We are fact checkers!
In a round about way, you are correct, DUmp'Rat. Most normal Americans have come to understand that if it issues from the soup cooler of a DUmp'Rat, it is 100%, verifiably WRONG. :thatsright:
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1. We are fact checkers!
But who fact-checks the fact-checkers? :devious:
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If you eliminate the hate all that’s left is stupidity and misinformation :thatsright: :loser:
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But who fact-checks the fact-checkers? :devious:
Actually, that's the humble service that we here at the 'Cave provide. We are Community Notes for the bullshit that gets tossed about the day room for the DNC's little online insane asylum.
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Clouds Passing
1. We are fact checkers!
Sez the people who reject facts that come from "Reich-Wing" sources.
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Saw this mid-week and got a big ol' belly laugh:
As Twitchy reported yesterday, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some pretty big waves across both social and traditional media when he announced that his social media sites -- Facebook, Instagram, and Threads -- would no longer be employing 'fact-checkers' to play Ministry of Truth over content that gets posted to those platforms. While most people (well, sane people, anyway) regarded this as a positive sign, it was also met with skepticism, particularly from those who were banned from Facebook for COVID 'misinformation,' or reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story, or even just those people who remember the overt election interference in the 2020 election through 'Zuckerbucks.'
Maybe the funniest reaction, however, came from the 'fact-checkers' themselves, who were not informed in advance of this decision and proceeded to throw a hissy fit about getting the boot from policing our freedom of speech. The executive director of PolitiFact, one of the biggest fake 'fact-checking operations running, was particularly amusing in his denials that PolitiFact had anything to do with censorship on Facebook. The story truly took a hysterical turn for the surreal, however, when The New York Times got a hold of it last night. In what was perhaps one of the least self-aware and unintentionally hilarious headlines of all time, the Gray Lady performed an enormous face plant in front of the world.
Take a look:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GguK2_TXcAAVSZ3?format=jpg&name=small)
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/01/08/gigantic-face-plant-new-york-times-headline-on-metas-fact-checkers-is-unintentional-hilarity-n2406284?
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Since when did facts matter at the dump :thatsright:
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Clouds Passing
1. We are fact checkers!
This stupid piece of parasitic scum won the internet for me today. That's the best laugh that I've had in awhile.
Speaking of DU fact checkers (I can't even type that without laughing), how many here remember how DU revealed the earthquake machine of the BFEE? Or was it the tsunami machine? Or maybe it was a multi-purpose machine?
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I'm pretty sure the last of the DUmp's fact-checkers has been tomestoned.
(https://i.postimg.cc/SsXh3fG4/Screenshot-2025-01-12-11-12-34-PM.png) (https://postimg.cc/R6zynf8p)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x56836
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I'm pretty sure the last of the DUmp's fact-checkers has been tomestoned.
(https://i.postimg.cc/SsXh3fG4/Screenshot-2025-01-12-11-12-34-PM.png) (https://postimg.cc/R6zynf8p)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x56836
:rotf:
KC
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brooklynite got banned for posting realities DU-folk didn't want to hear or be heard.
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IcyPeas
15 hrs ago
Do we need fact-checkers here at Democratic Underground?
You need facts to check first, then you can think about fact checkers.
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In closely related news:
DNC Taps Kamala HQ Staffers to Run New Rapid Response Initiative Named 'FactPostNews' and BAHAHA
The DNC has decided to tap the geniuses who embarrassed themselves SO MUCH during Kamala Harris's campaign, Kamala HQ to run some sort of fact-checking account on X. If you guys remember, it was a group of like a dozen lefties who got taken apart by three young men on the right who did it for free.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GhLWLVhWMAAg4pb?format=jpg&name=small)
We're PRETTY sure this is the account - the timing makes sense: @factpostnews
Not exactly all that creative.
Here's their bio:
Posting facts.
Sure they are.
C'mon. These people wouldn't know an actual fact to post if one fell out of the sky, landed on their faces, and started to wiggle.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/01/13/axios-taps-kamala-harris-fact-check-team-and-the-jokes-write-themselves-n2406559
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I just realized that Clouds Passing's post has a spelling error:
Clouds Passing
1. We are fact chuckers!
:rimshot:
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In closely related news:
DNC Taps Kamala HQ Staffers to Run New Rapid Response Initiative Named 'FactPostNews' and BAHAHA
The DNC has decided to tap the geniuses who embarrassed themselves SO MUCH during Kamala Harris's campaign, Kamala HQ to run some sort of fact-checking account on X. If you guys remember, it was a group of like a dozen lefties who got taken apart by three young men on the right who did it for free.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GhLWLVhWMAAg4pb?format=jpg&name=small)
We're PRETTY sure this is the account - the timing makes sense: @factpostnews
Not exactly all that creative.
Here's their bio:
Posting facts.
Sure they are.
C'mon. These people wouldn't know an actual fact to post if one fell out of the sky, landed on their faces, and started to wiggle.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/01/13/axios-taps-kamala-harris-fact-check-team-and-the-jokes-write-themselves-n2406559
I don't know if the Kackle-hoe staffers can handle being "fact checkers" where COMMUNITY NOTES can shoot down every bullshit trial balloon they float for the entire world to see.
I'd expect to see them curled up fetal position in the conference room corner before day 3, personally.
:crybaby: :nelson: