As 2020 winds down, there’s plenty of “Orwellian” distinctions to be made, but is there any more so than the idea of “fact-checkers?” Near as I can tell, fact-checking was invented by the media to address their bias-by-omission approach to news reporting. The greatest source of news bias has always been what they left out, not what they reported. When they did report something that was true, but went against their narrative, they didn’t really have a way to rationalize it. Enter fact-checking. Humans have always been remarkably creative problem-solvers. It’s why freedom always leads to the best problem-solving…

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