Glenn Greenwald wrote a piece today.....where he's judging a number of news outlets that have created 'fact-checkers'.
So Glenn went and suggested that various fact-checkers are just stamping various stories as fact, with little to no research. So they go and spread around a story....claiming such-and-such news source told some factual story, then weeks and months later....the 'facts' on the table area deemed 'fake'.
You stand there....not only was the original source fraud....but the fact-checkers stamped once-over, and made it a second time fraud.
Added to this issue....part of the facts (originally made up)....were passed out via the FBI, State Department or CIA....which were fraudulent as well. Three times over....fake.
So you stand there....the consumer, and after forty-odd times of being faked-out, you start to wonder....on a weekly basis, how much is fraud? Ten-percent? Thirty-percent? Fifty-percent?
At some point, you just give up, and avoid reading these sources (like WaPo or NY Times).
A society that has limited or marginal trust? The same society is dependent upon democracy to work, but it can't function in this type of circumstance?
It's like some fake reality show now.
