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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast

on JustTheNews.com. I hope you will think about pre-ordering my new book it's called

Slanted, How the News Media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism.

Today my investigation revealing how the recent boom in the fact check industry can be traced

to the same partisan interests.

Today I'm going to talk through the findings of my original investigation that I conducted

for real clear investigations. And it's on a topic that I know is near and dear to many of your

hearts because if you're listening to this podcast now you've probably already noticed that the fact

check trend that really took off an earnest around 2016, primarily to use against President Trump

and his supporters, that the fact check trend has two folds. First they often aren't fact checking

facts. They are fact checking other things. They are using fact checks to dissect and spin facts

and opinions and predictions and theories, not fact checking at all. And second fact checks

almost always seem to come down on one side, finding ways to twist a particular true fact

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