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RIP Reality with Jon Askonas

Outsider Theory

CHAPTER

Fact Checking Is a Weaponized Fact Check

In order to get a c and n tape, you literally had to, it was by postal mail. And in such, that's the environment in which fact checking emerges. Once social media exists and you have way to a kind of tally score in real time, it becomes an avenue to do that. But even without any change amongst the actual fact checkers, which not commince is the case. A, simply the fact that you've got a weaponized fact checking means its not going to,. it's going to have a short half life in terms of the underlying norm maintaining the power that it once did.

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