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Google Likes To Say Fact-Checkers It Uses Are "Independent." But It Also Funds Them. (reclaimthenet.org)
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The fund, sustained by a $13.2 million donation from Google and YouTube, poses a crucial question on the independence of these fact-checkers. “YouTube doesn’t endorse or create any of the fact checks that are shown in information panels on YouTube,” Google says. While YouTube claims to use independent fact-checkers for providing panels on content, the entanglement of its purse strings with the very fact-checkers raises concerns about this so-called impartiality.

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[–] T_y_rannyLoverLOL@exploding-heads.com 1 points 2 years ago

when someone says fact checker, I instantly think of a neck-bearded, fedora-wearing, cheeto munching, pimple ridden fat lard ass on his couch smearing his grimey fingers on an ipad.