As my RedState colleague Brandon Morse so thoroughly explained in a recent VIP piece, mainstream fact-checkers are a plague on society. Unfortunately, that is not going to change anytime soon considering so-called fact-checkers often work hand in hand with the MSM in the interest of preserving and amplifying the left's preferred narratives.

We've extensively documented many instances here of purported fact-check experts like CNN's Daniel Dale and the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler running interference for Democrats, with Kessler even proudly confirming not long after Joe Biden was sworn in that the Post did "not plan to extend beyond 100 days" their Biden fact-checking database. 

"We will keep doing fact checks," Kessler later promised. "...just not a database." On the other hand, the Post kept an extensive database on former President Donald Trump.

But what happens when the media and their fact-checking partners like PolitiFact lose their stranglehold on the industry? A great wailing and gnashing of teeth begins, of course, with the hit pieces getting cranked out in an effort to cast doubt on the credibility of their competition.

Case in point, NBC News, which penned a piece on how "fact-checks on known misinformation are delayed for days" by Twitter's Community Notes team, insinuating that some alleged "misinformation" is deliberately being allowed to stand unchecked by CEO Elon Musk until it's too late for any published changes to make a difference.

The piece heavily relied on one source, an alleged Community Notes volunteer named Kim Picazio, whose Threads page reads like a hate fest against Musk and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Nevertheless, NBC News ran with her claims, emphasizing one in particular in which she alleged that "It took 2+ days for the backroom to press whatever button to finally make all our warnings publicly viewable. By that time... You know the rest of that sentence."

The problem with the suggestion that there is an intentional preventing of Community Notes from being publicly displayed is that the display of the information is entirely user-based, as was explained in a Community Note add to NBC News' tweet on the issue:

NBC just got hit with a community note for spreading misinformation about community notes. pic.twitter.com/omYJCfTb08

— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 11, 2023

Just to prove the point, as of this writing, you can't see the note directly on the NBC News tweet nor that of reporter Ben Goggin, who wrote the story, as participants in the Community Notes program are going back and forth on whether they find the note helpful enough to be displayed directly on the tweets in question.

As the Community Notes page explains:

Community Notes' goal is to show helpful context to people when they come across potentially misleading information on X. When a note is rated Helpful by contributors, it starts being shown directly on the post. 

All proposed notes start with the status of Needs More Ratings, and are shown to Contributors in order to gather ratings.

[...]

If you are a Community Notes contributor, you'll see a prompt on posts that have proposed notes. Tap the prompt to rate those notes.

If enough contributors from different points of view rate a note as helpful, it earns a status of "Helpful", and starts showing on X.

If enough contributors rate a note as not helpful, it reaches a status of "Not Helpful", and is not shown on X. Contributors whose notes consistently reach this status may have their writing ability temporarily locked.

"Note statuses are updated as new ratings come in, so notes may show on X and then disappear," they also noted.

In other words, there is no conspiracy on the issue of alleged "misinformation" tweets on Twitter/X being purposely allowed to stand without a noted correction.

On the other hand, there are plenty of instances where "fact checkers" at the WaPo, CNN, and elsewhere simply ignored or glossed over falsehoods being perpetuated by Democrats on up to Joe Biden, allowing them to stand permanently without any meaningful pushback if any at all. 

Think we'll see a piece from NBC News on that? Of course not, because they are also willing participants in the intentional overlooking of inconvenient facts that disrupt their and the left's preferred narratives about not just themselves but also the right.

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