"Fact-checking is clearly an enterprise devoted towards furthering a very specific political programme under the false cover of objectivity," writes Eugyppius as he reviews the outpourings of one prolific fact checker.
The Daily Mail ran a story about the "shocking" melting of the Greenland ice sheet during the "global boiling" in July. But in fact the ice sheet is currently larger than normal.
COVID-19 saw the emergence of an industry of fact-checking websites and censorship of 'misinformation', portrayed as a danger to public health. Drs Roger Watson and Niall McCrae revisit one to see how well it has aged.
Reuters has published another 'fact check' of an article in the Daily Sceptic by Environment Editor Chris Morrison, this one even more feeble than the others.
A polemic against "anti-vax conspiracy theorist" Andrew Bridgen MP in Spiked contains several errors of fact and misrepresentations. Dr Will Jones sets the record straight.
In case there was any remaining doubt that 'fact-checkers' are just activists putting their own spin on events, the BBC has appointed a Labour Party activist and Jeremy Corbyn fanboy as a 'political fact-checker'.
The BBC has publicised a disturbing claim in a Parliamentary report that racism has played “a key role” in the deaths of pregnant women, but the claim does not withstand the slightest scrutiny.
In the end, the BBC declined to broadcast the last episode of Sir David Attenborough’s Wild Isles tale of ecological disaster and breakdown, tucking it away under an ‘extras’ slot on the iPlayer streaming service.
Andrew Bridgen MP recently made an important speech to Parliament on the risks vs benefits of Covid vaccination that was attacked on the BBC. The attacks, however, were misplaced, say Prof Norman Fenton and colleagues.
Anyone questioning the imposition of 15-minute cities is stupid and dangerous, say the mainstream media, shutting down debate – the latest extreme agenda where criticism is dismissed as 'conspiracy theories'.
