General Discussion

Is a stronger sense of cynicism.

I don't need fact-checkers because I don't assume everything written on the internet is a fact. I don't treat it as a fact until enough corroborating evidence has been provided to make it reasonably factual.

If everyone approached the internet with similar levels of doubt, the entire question would be moot.

It is shocking to me how much faith people put in information just because they read it. It is one of the reasons I despise social media is because it is so easy to manipulate people. Much of twitter is just opinion masquerading as fact. Most political content today is just a reference to a story with an outrage inducing interpretation. Since the vast majority of people never dig deeper, the 80 character outrage summary carries the message even if it disagrees entirely with the underlying content.

And yes, we are guilty of it too, albeit it a much lesser degree.