{"id":65496,"date":"2023-07-16T06:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T11:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65496"},"modified":"2023-07-16T06:49:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T11:49:43","slug":"the-fact-check-racket-finally-unravels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65496","title":{"rendered":"The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Before the COVID lockdowns, social media companies had started contracting with new third-parties organizations called fact-checkers to assist in \u201ccontent creation.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Getting a pass meant the post or story was amplified but getting dinged for inaccuracy meant that the post would be throttled or deleted.<\/p>\n

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For a while we believed it but certain revelations changed that.\u00a0We came to realize that the posts labeled false were typically contrary to regime narratives.<\/strong>\u00a0And a close look at the supposed refutation revealed that many points were very much in dispute. The companies developed a talent for seeming to reveal something false that was actually still debatable and interesting to consider. In most cases, what was declared false was still under consideration.<\/p>\n

As time went on, the attempts to censor became more brazen and obvious.\u00a0<\/strong>Then the Twitter files and other FOIAs generated proof of what many suspected all along. These entities were funded either directly or indirectly by government or by other dark-money sources as quid pro quos for other relationships they had cultivated with interested parties.<\/p>\n

In other words, they were not some independent, science-based entities at all but rather hit squads with a hard political agenda. What was actually happening here was a form of censorship laundering. Government wants to censor but cannot so it turns to the social-media company to do the dirty work. To make this hand-in-glove racket less obvious, the companies would outsource to a fact-checking organization, making the lines of control even more blurry.<\/p>\n

Sometime within the last several months, the whole racket seems to have unraveled.\u00a0<\/strong>I rarely see the fact-checks cited at all. Or maybe they are cited ironically: what is declared false came to be seen as a badge of honor, a confirmation of core truth. That might seem crazy but these are the times in which we live. Nothing is as it seems.<\/p>\n

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The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels Before the COVID lockdowns, social media companies had started contracting with new third-parties organizations called fact-checkers to assist in \u201ccontent creation.\u201d\u00a0Getting a pass meant the post or story was amplified but getting dinged for inaccuracy meant that the post would be throttled or deleted. For a while we believed it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,14851,32084,14545,26071,16350,4318],"class_list":["post-65496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-fact-checking","tag-jeffrey-tucker","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-management","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65497,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496\/revisions\/65497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}