
Originally Posted by
ragingpup
This is taken from bible bashing anti woke right wing extremists in the US. Why so willing to take their view without question, and even repost it, whilst immediately dismissing evidence from fact checked articles linked to what seems to be a well reasoned report that dismisses Thorpe's 'evidence' as deliberately misleading?
But you're right to encourage vigilance against any media source. So, how to best fact check fact checking based articles on fact checking sites?
1. Seperate the two arguments presented by the fact checker
2. Cross check the contrasting arguments yourself with other research from both sides of the argument
3. Use your own (admittedly biased but all you've got) reasoning to judge whether the fact checking article's judgement is based on robust evidence.
In my experience, Factcheck and fullfact seem to be very robust and hardly ever seem to be caught pants down on their conclusions.