Big Journalism is engaged in a parody of fact checking at this point.

Trump gets ho-hum corrections -- often granularly parsed to give him endless benefits of the doubt -- and the fact-checkers don't even pretend to get to every lie.

Democrats get granular parsing, too. But the goal is to find falsehoods and never, ever give the benefit of the doubt.

Fact-checking is a sadly broken both-sides (even when one is lying) enterprise.

@dangillmor Meanwhile, in related “fact-checking” news over at the NYT…
https://bsky.app/profile/theotherjim.bsky.social/post/3l25vouq3d425
Jim Meyer (@theotherjim.bsky.social)

FACT CHECK: 8 years is actually twice as long as 4 years.

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