F what they did was to hinder the information to be spread, in the name of “fack checking”. That somehow achieves the effect of speech policing, not journalism.
1. The essay argues that people use claims of “fake news” to discredit the opposing side while hiding their own partisanship by claiming that their side is the “objective” (i.e. “true”) one. However, the “objectivity standard” is itself a false one. It allows one side to dismiss the other’s side as fake and partisan, while … Read more