{"id":14901,"date":"2024-10-16T21:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2024-10-16T21:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:16:14","slug":"what-even-the-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=14901","title":{"rendered":"what? even the fact checkers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In recent months, many have quoted fact checkers to justify the solidity of their perspective. The flaw in that logic is that many have not realized that fact checkers are also not free from bias or skewing of perspective. Fact checkers are not automatically objective arbiters. In fact, often they are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it matters how an argument is asked. Sometimes an analysis suggests a claim is clearly \u201ctrue\u201d or clearly \u201cfalse\u201d when it\u2019s not known for certain one way or another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And living in a season when many feel empowered to fact check, inconsistently determining both who and what they will check whenever they do or do not wish, makes the process all the more confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, as we move further into a month where more of us are paying attention to the news \u2014 challenging and polarizing as that can so often be \u2014 let\u2019s add fact checking to our bias conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait\u2026 why?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allow us to quote, AllSides, <\/em>one of the rare contemporary resources where we can trust what we\u2019re reading and hearing. As their editorial philosophy states, AllSides <\/em>\u201cstrengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation. We expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world \u2014 and each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Intramuralist believes that better understanding the world and each other is a good thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we recognize that bias exists. In news sources. In each of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hidden bias is the larger problem. Hidden bias \u201cmisleads and divides us.\u201d It also makes us ignorant and unaware of how our own perspective is skewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, we present today\u2019s fact checking resource to minimize division, believing the intensity and acceptance of division to be an increasingly unhealthy aspect of our society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how the fact checkers line up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notice how many fact checkers lean,This is good to know, as knowing the bias of the fact checkers can help us seek out better, more balanced news, crafting more objective and actually accurate perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can also help us think more for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respectfully\u2026 and yes, in this together\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent months, many have quoted fact checkers to justify the solidity of their perspective. The flaw in that logic is that many have not realized that fact checkers are also not free from bias or skewing of perspective. Fact checkers are not automatically objective arbiters. In fact, often they are not. Sometimes it matters … <\/p>\n

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