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Wisbech Eagle said:
We all do!

We read their analyses. We evaluate the evidence they present. We determine whether their conclusions are valid or not. We build either trust or distrust.

When an analysis involves someone like Trump we balance that against the trust, or distrust, that they have established with us. Then we decide where the truth is.

If this was the Cup semi final then the fact checkers team are Palace and the Trump team are Villa. It’s no contest!

By the way Trump isn’t accountable. The SC ruling absolved him of accountability. He is also ignoring Court decisions.

The broadcasters in the USA are not out of control. They are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Therein lies a little known but very great danger. Trump has appointed his own man to lead it and, of course, they are now politicising what they do and attacking coverage that is critical of Trump. Instead of protecting free speech they are trying to suppress it.
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We do that and then stick with the permanent position that Trump is/was wrong.
 
Imagine being critical of people who questioned fact checkers bias in the last couple of years. Then all of a sudden Trump gets in and then they themselves question fact checkers bias and telling us to do the same 🤣
 
Teddy Eagle said:
We do that and then stick with the permanent position that Trump is/was wrong.
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That’s the default position certainly but for very good reasons. Trump has a long and incontestable history which the fact checkers, alongside many others, routinely expose. It’s not even seriously denied, other by transparently stupid claims of “fake news” etc.

Those who try to defend Trump simply make themselves look ridiculous.
 
It's interesting how the leftists are very keen to talk about Trump on here. But are pretty quiet when it comes to Starmer's performance.
 
Wisbech Eagle said:
That’s the default position certainly but for very good reasons. Trump has a long and incontestable history which the fact checkers, alongside many others, routinely expose. It’s not even seriously denied, other by transparently stupid claims of “fake news” etc.

Those who try to defend Trump simply make themselves look ridiculous.
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It's not defending Trump to point out that fact checking and preconceptions are mutually exclusive.
 
eaglesdare said:
Imagine being critical of people who questioned fact checkers bias in the last couple of years. Then all of a sudden Trump gets in and then they themselves question fact checkers bias and telling us to do the same 🤣
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Who on earth do you think is now suggesting there is any bias in the fact checking?

There’s enough of them to achieve a balanced opinion. Using common sense and past experience everyone with any degree of intelligence can sort the truth out.

That some want to believe something else, so choose to do so, is unfortunate but doesn’t change facts.
 
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