Episode 381 – Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers?

The Corbett Report Podcast

The Corbett Report

Politics, News

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all come across online fact checkers that purport to warn us away from independent media sites under the guise of protecting us from fake news. But who is behind these fact check sites? How do they operate? And if these ham-fisted attempts at soft censorship aren’t the solution to online misinformation, what is? Join James for this week’s important edition of The Corbett Report podcast, where we explore the murky world of information gatekeeping and ask “Who will fact check the fact checkers?”

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Corbett Report.
0:07.0	Corbett report.
0:10.0	Corbett.com. Welcome back, friends.
0:15.0	Welcome back to the Corbett Reports.
0:16.5	I am your host James Corbett of Corbett report.com coming to you as always
0:20.4	from the sunny climes of Western Japan
0:22.8	here on this 19th day of June 2020.
0:27.0	Welcome to episode 381 of the Corbett Report
0:30.3	podcast.
0:31.7	Who will fact-check check the fact checkers?
0:35.0	And yes, as I'm sure you can discern from the title of today's episode,
0:39.0	today we're going to be talking about a very important topic that directly impinges on the work that I do here
0:45.1	at the corporate report and that the independent'm pardon the interruption. As I was saying every time you go to share a link to this type of information that I deal with here at the corporate report this day and age,
1:07.5	it seems that you get some sort of warning that... Oh dear this is going to be a problem isn't it.
1:17.0	Oh dear this is going to be a problem isn't it?
1:19.0	Well as I was saying you get some sort of warning that this information is that most dreaded phenomenon of this information
1:27.0	age in which we... That this is fake n-n-n-n-h-n-h-that this is fake-n.
1:37.0	Sometimes the news you find on the internet isn't real.
1:43.0	It's what we call fake news.
1:46.0	Fake news is when news, stories, or hoaxes are created to deliberately
1:51.0	misinform or deceive.
1:53.2	Still, recognizing fake news is hard.
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