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Poujol 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝗍 ✅<a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/Fact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fact</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/checking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#checking</a> à Facebook et ailleurs : à quoi ça sert ? (ENTRETIEN)<a href="https://podcasts.afp.com/afp-audio-sur-le-fil/202501130400-fact-checking-facebook-et-ailleurs-quoi-ca-sert" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasts.afp.com/afp-audio-sur-le-fil/202501130400-fact-checking-facebook-et-ailleurs-quoi-ca-sert</a>//<a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/factChecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#factChecking</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/fact_Checking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fact_Checking</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/factsChecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#factsChecking</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/facts_Checking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#facts_Checking</a>

Chuck DarwinThe mainstream media’s “<a href="https://c.im/tags/fact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fact</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/checking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#checking</a>” of the Democratic National Convention was ⭐️ rightly ridiculed for an obsession with semantics and pedantic nitpicking, but the result was more than just annoying. Many of the purported “fact-checks” go beyond verifying Democrats’ statements and instead serve as political spin for Trump, giving him an unearned benefit of the doubt that almost ignores he actually was president and has an established <a href="https://c.im/tags/record" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#record</a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/deceit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deceit</a> and malicious <a href="https://c.im/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a>.The error that fact-checkers consistently make is taking Trump’s assertions and denials at face value. They still treat the convicted felon like someone who operates in good faith, which often results in wish-casting and the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/sane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sane</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/washing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#washing</a>” of Trump’s blather. Democrats, meanwhile, are held to an impossibly literal standard where routine exaggerations and rhetorical flourishes are treated like whoppers.Trump’s statements are decontextualized, while those from Democrats are relentlessly scrutinized. The impact is a proliferation of false equivalencies that normalize Republican liars. <a href="https://www.publicnotice.co/p/politifact-glenn-kessler-amy-gardner-linda-qiu-dnc-fact-check" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.publicnotice.co/p/politifact-glenn-kessler-amy-gardner-linda-qiu-dnc-fact-check</a>

Chuck DarwinAs a child, Mathew Desmond experienced poverty firsthand. He saw his family home repossessed and endured the stresses and humiliations of his family’s lack of means. It raised the question that he would go on to dedicate his professional life to answering: ❓Why is there such stark <a href="https://c.im/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inequality</a> in America?❓The hard truth, he said, is that 💥so many of us benefit from it.💥Desmond shared a litany of statistics illustrating the growing burden of poverty and inequality in the United States: • 1 in 3 families live in a household that has an income of $55,000 a year or less. • 38 million people are below the federal poverty level of $30,000 for a family of four. • Evictions have increased by 22% since the turn of the century. • The number of public-school kids who are unhoused has increased by 74% since the turn of century. • The amount of inflation-adjusted, non-mortgage debt has increased by more than 200% -- and the number of families reporting no income apart from food stamps has quadrupled since the 2008 recession. • Since 1985, rent increases have outpaced wage growth by 325%. • Each year, people are charged $11 billion in overdraft fees and $10 billion in payday loan fees.“So, here's one reason there's so much poverty in America today: because the poor are <a href="https://c.im/tags/exploited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploited</a>,” said Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Evicted" and his more recent work "Poverty, by America". “I think it's a word we should use more.”👉The exploitation is perpetuated, not only by the corporations, financial institutions, and landlords who withhold fair wages, charge exorbitant fees, and profit off those in poverty, 👉but also by affluent Americans who benefit from the exploitation, he said.Desmond quoted an analogy from novelist Tommy Orange, “Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they’re jumping.”🔥The American approach to poverty has often been to focus on those who are poor and what they can do to uplift themselves -- rather than changing the systems that keep them poor. This can be uncomfortable for those whose <a href="https://c.im/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#property</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#values</a> are protected by ⚠️segregation of affordable housing, those who have invested in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/stock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stock</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/market" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#market</a> and make money when ⚠️exploitative corporations net profits, and those with <a href="https://c.im/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#free</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/checking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#checking</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/accounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accounts</a> that are ⚠️subsidized by the poor who pay fees for their lack of capital, he explained.The affluent also benefit from government subsidies more than the poor, he said. According to Desmond, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/wealthiest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wealthiest</a> families in the United States receive an average of about 🔷$35,000 annually in tax benefits, while the <a href="https://c.im/tags/poorest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poorest</a> get an average of ♦️$25,000 in subsidies. These are realized in <a href="https://c.im/tags/mortgage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mortgage</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/incentives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incentives</a>, special <a href="https://c.im/tags/investment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#investment</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/accounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accounts</a>, like #529 accounts that help pay for college, and other <a href="https://c.im/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tax</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/breaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#breaks</a> for the wealthy.Many affluent families further contribute to poverty by building communities that exclude and marginalize the poor — pushing them out of their neighborhoods using <a href="https://c.im/tags/zoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zoning</a> ordinances, Desmond said<a href="https://www.aamc.org/news/we-can-solve-poverty-america-we-just-don-t-want" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aamc.org/news/we-can-solve-poverty-america-we-just-don-t-want</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Fox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fox</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> CEO Suzanne Scott sounded the alarm inside the company about the <a href="https://c.im/tags/financial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#financial</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fallout</a> that the right-wing network would suffer if it continued <a href="https://c.im/tags/fact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fact</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/checking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#checking</a> then-President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lies</a> after the 2020 election, according to messages that became public Wednesday.In one instance, Scott emailed Meade Cooper, executive vice president of prime time programming, and laced into correspondent Eric Shawn for fact-checking Trump.“This has to stop now,” Scott said in a December 2, 2020, message.“This is bad for business and there is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows,” Scott added. “The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.”The email to Cooper was revealed as part of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dominion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dominion</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Voting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Systems</a>’ $1.6 billion defamation <a href="https://c.im/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lawsuit</a> against Fox News. Like several documents made public Wednesday, the email had previously been redacted in earlier court filings. The new emails were included in a presentation that Dominion showed at a hearing last week in Wilmington, Delaware. The voting technology company publicly released the full slideshow Wednesday, per a court order.In another email written by Scott, zinging correspondent Kristin Fisher for her supposed “dismissive tone” in November 2020 after the presidential contest, the Fox News chief disclosed that the company had “lost 25k subs from FOX NATION,” its streaming service<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/media/fox-news-dominion-messages/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/media/fox-news-dominion-messages/</a>

Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/stop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/checking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#checking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ffwd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ffwd</a>

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