The Importance of Fact Checking

Ben: I think maybe tech doesn't understand how media works. The internet fact checking that we're talking about specifically involved employing a bunch of like very junior people to try to correct what were often very complicated stories. A lot of political statements aren't really factual statements and you're not going to like fact check them out of it if they're actually kind of trolling you, he says. He thinks in the Internet we're going back to a sort of oral way of existing even though Twitter is textualYou know the message is the media and kind of in kind of an analog era where you grew up in the New York Times weren't hard to read your regional truth and people used to say all

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