Friday, February 18, 2022

USA Today Fact Checkers as modern snake oil saleswomen

Heh.  I mean this was funny.  Stop where you are.  Go pop some popcorn and get a box of candy or two.  When you do, come back and click on this link right here

I won't say much.  I laughed out loud at the Partly False rating after USA Today admitted it couldn't find proof the claims were false.  

The Claims: 100K trucker protesters and no burning builds or injuries.

USA TODAY: Unable to verify numbers, but doesn't look like 100K.  And some arrest were made and a police car rammed, with armed people showing up.

Conclusion: Partly False

Bwa ha ha ha ha!  

The worst thing, though?  There are actual people who cling to these "Fact Checkers" as if they're gospel evangelists.  

2 comments:

  1. They cited sources at the end of the article. Did you persue them?

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    1. Not all of them. Enough of them to see what they were clearly trying to do, and that's find any way to deflect from a failure of the convoy protests to live up to the initial attacks of being racist, fascists who were going to bring death and destruction in their wake - like the peaceful protests of 2020 that were universally lauded and praised by many of the same fact checking media outlets.

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