While this thread probably will turn into a media bashing segment, which will make plenty of valid points, I’ll point out this isn’t healthy for society to have fact-checks from reputable sources be irrelavent and people use their distrust in the media as an excuse to be ignorant and stick your head in the sand.  This is straight out of the GOP fascist playbook in which they want reality blurred as they continue to do shitty thing after shitty thing that a good chunk of our society can’t see even if it’s right in front of us.