The ABC is dumping its RMIT “fact checker”, intending to do its own thing.

Who appointed the ABC as fact checker anyway?  Not its employers, the taxpayers,  providing it with $1.3 billion a year,  $670,000 of which has gone to RMIT to provide a “service” that most taxpayers are not interested in, and probably don't know exists. 

The in-house version of deciding what people should believe was axed back in 2016 because of funding cuts. Now, the ABC is apparently getting enough taxpayer funds to do its own meddling again. 

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Sorry, the facts don't care about your feelings.

What a stupid comment from WTF. Not surprising though.

For anyone interested, here are the facts on ABC pulling
the plug on the RMIT Factchecking collaboration:

http://theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/24/facing-facts-abc-pulls-the-plug-on-rmit-factchecking-collaboration

My apologies. Here's the link again:

http://theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/23/facing-facts-abc-pulls-the-plug-on-rmit-factchecking-collaboration

In terms of fact-checking, Elon Mush/X/Twitter have introduced a thing called community notes (http://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/community-notes) that allows people to add information and context to misleading tweets. Its been wildly successful.

Organisations like ABC would be bettered served doing likewise rather than just getting so-called experts to add more biased content to the ABC's already biased content.