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.

Hi mhaze,
"In terms of fact-checking, Elon Mush/X/Twitter have introduced a thing called community notes that allows people to add information and context to misleading tweets. Its been wildly successful."
- It's not bad, but it's not perfect.
Anything 'community-based' on a large platform like X can be misused.
If you have a group outside of X working to undermine a certain narrative...
Or even if staff in house hold a bias on certain topics.
Then certain X influencers can be targeted / undermined.
And sometimes 'A truth' that the media supports isn't always 'THE truth'.

Lets say the media say 'Covid Vaccines are safe'
- Then a person who claims otherwise might be hit with community notes supporting the current accepted narrative, discrediting the content of the tweet, and down the track a different 'truth' becomes more widely accepted.

The “theory” that vaccines caused more extra deaths in Australia looks to have been accepted as ‘fact’ by the Senate (by one vote), which might lay the way for a much needed Royal Commission into the government’s handling of Covid-19.

UA Senator, Ralph Babet, who introduced the motion, is excited about it, saying that, “ As far as I am aware this is the first time any parliament in the world has officially voted on and acknowledged we have a problem with excess deaths.”

Although the result does not establish a formal inquiry, it indicates a change in sentiment that could separate fact from one of the many fictions used to control us at the time of a flu-like virus that, in most cases, killed only people already beyond their expected life span.

https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2024/02/27/breaking-australian-parliament-becomes-first-in-world-to-acknowledge-excess-deaths/

As an old mentor used to drum into me.....best (perfect) is the biggest enemy of better.

ie there are no perfect solutions, just better solutions.

I believe that RMIT was ditched because their "fact-checking" was so partisan and so often wrong that it was a joke.