I am working on ways to talk with people who do not trust current fact-checking media outlets such as Politico, Factcheck.org, and Snopes. I would love to hear from people who do and do not trust these organizations. Why you do/do not trust these organizations? How often do you read or see articles from these outlets? And finally what are some of the Fact-checking media outlets that you do trust and follow and why?
Please reach out with any other questions or comments that you might have!
Hope to talk to all of you!
Thank you for your reply.
Sources are great, but we must always remember to "trust but verify". There are reports from traditionally trustworthy news sources/media outlets of "white helmets" in Syria doing good things but it has come out that many of these good actions were staged.
Fact-checking platforms are not a source of news or media for me. I do not use any fact-checking platforms when researching the validity of information. They are solely used to drive the agenda of their parent company/funders and bend the truth in the direction they so desire. The actual interview, official/FOIA documents, multiple eyewitness accounts, these are the types of information i use as my sources. I end up at these sources after finding the news/event that i am interested in and work back to verifiable source documents, existing recordings and the like.
Relying on others to verify "facts" with the current state of the main stream news media leads to an echo chamber that serves to distort the truth. The current situation with Ukraine is a great example of that. CNN would have you believe that ambassador Sondland said there was a quid pro quo. His recorded testimony, which can be viewed online, shows otherwise. CNN is fabricating facts in hopes people will not go watch it themselves. Fact-checking platforms then confirm what the news media has said. Those fact-checking platforms are then ranked higher in search results on google and/or used on sites like facebook to keep "false/fake" news from spreading (false/fake being news that does not agree with the narrative of the fact checkers and MSM.)
The truth is, if you follow the money you will see why these fact-checkers operate the way the they do.
Who owns them and who funds them? (please check me but i believe "media matters" is owned by David Brock who is involved deeply with Hillary and the DNC")
politifact is primarily funded by the poynter institute, which lists google, face book, and the open society foundations as some of its largest donors.
The open society foundation is funded by George Soros, if you are not familiar with his globalist agenda you need to start there. This man attempts to short national currencies, making a fortune as economies fail. Pure Evil.