As long as the so-called "fact checkers" do not uncover all false reports, i.e. also those of the government and press ducks, they are neither neutral nor serious and certainly not independent. One of the very few media in Switzerland, the Infosperber, recognized this very aptly:
"Fact-checking" organizations have become an industrial complex of censorship. Governments and corporations remain unmolested.
Author Andrew Lowenthal is an independent writer and researcher specializing in digital rights and digital authoritarianism. He is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Network Cultures at the University of Amsterdam.
In the age of social media, ever faster information transfer and the increasing influence of PR-driven information and war propaganda, independent fact-checking organizations would be extremely valuable institutions. But almost all of these “fact check” organizations now work in the service of powerful state and corporate interest groups and feign false credibility.
They have always described themselves as independent. Their actions do not testify to independence, but rather to targeted opinion making, i.e. propaganda. When it comes to Corona, the vaccine, the war in Ukraine and climate policy, they have been recruited for one-sided censorship. We got caught in a pincer grip, there was something about freedom in the West and the dictatorship in the East. Now the surveillance and opinion dictatorship is in effect across the globe. Comforting is dictatorships have always had an expiration date and the fish always started to stink from the head...
You can read the entire Infosperber article here.
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