The Professional Fact-Check Is Dead: How Snopes and PolitiFact Lost Their Credibility

The dedicated “fact-check” outfit is dead; it just doesn’t know it yet.

The crisis of professional “fact-checking” is not new. For more than 15 years, observers have watched with alarm as the genre degraded itself to serve partisan politics.

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Becket Adams

Becket Adams is a columnist for National Review, the Washington Examiner, and The Hill.

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The dedicated “fact-check” outfit is dead; it just doesn’t know it yet.

The crisis of professional “fact-checking” is not new. For more than 15 years, observers have watched with alarm as the genre degraded itself to serve partisan politics.