{"id":37346,"date":"2021-05-30T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=37346"},"modified":"2021-05-30T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:05:13","slug":"rt-ericrweinstein-our-fact-checkers-have-one-job-only-one-reason-for-being-they-are-supposed-to-focus-on-facts-only-check-them-this-is-not-fact-checking-politifact-this-is-consensus-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=37346","title":{"rendered":"RT @EricRWeinstein: Our fact checkers have one job. Only one reason for being. They are supposed to focus on facts only &#038; check them. This is not fact checking @PolitiFact. This is consensus checking. That has nothing to do with facts. You aren\u2019t a fact checker. You opened us all to groupthink. https:\/\/t.co\/wY4NgkWXML"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our fact checkers have one job. Only one reason for being. They are supposed to focus on facts only &amp; check them.<\/p>\n<p>This is not fact checking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiFact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PolitiFact<\/a>. This is consensus checking. That has nothing to do with facts. <\/p>\n<p>You aren\u2019t a fact checker. You opened us all to groupthink. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wY4NgkWXML\">pic.twitter.com\/wY4NgkWXML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricRWeinstein\/status\/1396581749665140738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>May 30, 2021 at 02:00PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our fact checkers have one job. Only one reason for being. They are supposed to focus on facts only &amp; check them. This is not fact checking @PolitiFact. This is consensus checking. That has nothing to do with facts. You aren\u2019t a fact checker. You opened us all to groupthink. pic.twitter.com\/wY4NgkWXML &mdash; Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=37346\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RT @EricRWeinstein: Our fact checkers have one job. Only one reason for being. They are supposed to focus on facts only &#038; check them. This is not fact checking @PolitiFact. This is consensus checking. That has nothing to do with facts. You aren\u2019t a fact checker. You opened us all to groupthink. https:\/\/t.co\/wY4NgkWXML<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-37346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37347,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346\/revisions\/37347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37346"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=37346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}