CNN's Brian Stelter And Liam Reilly Hyperventilating Over The 'Assault' On Fact Checking

Posted • January 9, 2025: Fact-checking is under attack. As Twitchy reported Tuesday, the International Fact-Checking Network convened an emergency meeting after Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced that it was breaking up with Politifact and moving to a system mirroring X's Community Notes. CNN senior media analyst Brian Stelter called it Facebook's "MAGA makeover." Stelter had more to say on the air Wednesday about this new attack on fact-checking. -- Brian Stelter @brianstelter: “Meta’s surprise decision to scrap its fact-checking partnerships – blindsiding journalists involved in the program and putting some out of work – is part of a much bigger shift in media and politics. The 2016 phrase "war on truth" comes to mind… The very notion of fact-checking is under assault by a wide array of fact-challenged politicians and interest groups. Particularly on the right, “fact-check” has been turned into a dirty word, one that presupposes the fact-checker is actually suppressing some inconvenient truth.”

Particularly on the right … we wonder why that is. Why are conservatives so enamored with conspiracy theories and not the cold, hard facts as reported by outlets like CNN? Stelter and Liam Reilly report for CNN. […] Sorry, but we're all cried out over PolitiFact losing its Zuckerbucks for censoring conservative political posts. Wake up your own fact-checker Daniel Dale from his four-year nap and ask him: is the idea that fact-checking has become too politically biased fact or fiction? Dale's fact-checks don't only go in one direction … it's just that 99 percent of the time they do. Checking facts is just journalism. That's under attack by propagandists such as CNN. "fact" "checking," is under attack for being one-sided propaganda to advance Democrat narratives and censor speech the left wishes weren't allowed to exist. (…)

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