Lumifer comments on ClearerThinking's Fact-Checking 2.0 - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 22 October 2015 09:16PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 October 2015 02:57:13PM 5 points [-]

They operate under a bit different incentives.

That's not self-evident to me. They still want eyeballs and clicks.

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 October 2015 08:35:17PM 0 points [-]

I basically remembered FactCheck.org funding model and thought PolitiFact uses the same.

PolitiFact does make money via adverstising. At the same time I expect it's reputation needs to be a bit different.