I could see partnering with independent journalist corps to investigate flagged tweets. Guessing They'd only do it for verified accounts. They'd have control over the corp quality and bias, so could offer a reasonably neutral fact checking service if they choose to.
Interesting to see public information warefare playing out in real time.
I absolutely want to agree with you, but we’ve already seen controversial fact checkers ranging from, politifact, Snopes, mediamatters, Hillary Clinton‘s campaign, and in this instance Twitter’s own employee with his own colorful statements.
The issue becomes with what fact checkers omit, who’s statements are scrutinized and whose are the ignored as “jokes”, what part of a statement they choose to focus on, or any sort of perspective at all. If you’re an adult you know that life is shades of gray.
Was Biden being racist when he said “you ain’t black” if Blacks don’t vote for him? How would a fact checker properly handle this?
“Fact checking“ even with the best intentions, is it game I don’t think we want to play.
> Interesting to see public information warefare playing out in real time.
It's not easy, that's for sure. But this is also not a new problem. The field of journalism exists to address these complicated issues, which emerge from basic human communication rather than any recent technological advancement. In a real sense, truth is whatever society wants it to be and every attempt to fact check will be a political battle shrouding/suppressing potential physical violence. I'm not sure what the solution is other than our society finding a baseline of common truth first before addressing points where we differ.
Also, the US previously had the fairness doctrine which seems to have worked well in comparison with this era without it (though I have not done much research into it, and I can see how an administration like the one we have today would abuse it).
Interesting to see public information warefare playing out in real time.