• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    We have more overt fact-checking. if that trend continues, it can help push back on the patent falsehoods.

    We don’t though. Fact checking after the debate is of limited use. If you don’t confront a lie the second it’s told, the liar will rapidly go on to tell more lies and you end up with a Gish gallop of bullshit which is what we saw from Vance and Trump. They got away with it. A fact checking article on NPR the morning after does very little.