Oddbean new post about login | logout Fact checking as a panacea for the problem of misinformation online crashed headlong into the reality that lots of people want to be misinformed and lots of governments & political parties want voters to be misinformed. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/business/media/fact-checkers-misinformation.html
@2836a58e The biggest barrier to fact checking seems to be journalism’s own resistance to doing it, claiming that objectivity is preserved only through dogged bothsidesism supported by diligent stenography of everyone (except actual experts, who are dismissed as “activists”)