Chloe Lim analyzed two major fact checkers:

• Lim found that there was only a 10% overlap in the statements that two fact checkers evaluated.
• When there was overlap the two did not strongly agree – and sometimes flatly contradicted each other – in their assessment of a statements’ accuracy.
• This may help explain why facts don’t seem to have had much of an effect in America’s primary and Presidential elections.
• In the fact checkers’ defense – assessing the truth of political claims is hard. Politicians rarely offer much detail and usually ignore follow up requests for clarification.

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Via: Marginal Revolution