Now who is being clueless? Come on I'm saying you can't trust some faceless entity to check facts for you. You have to check yourself.
What is guaranteed is that you only have time to fact check a small number of issues yourself, and many people don't have the intellectual faculties to do it anyway. Perhaps the obviously impractical 'you have to do it yourself' stance is convenient for the anti-science conspiracy theory nonsense that people enjoy so much around here.
Fact check sites have competent people collecting info and sources for everyone else, and explaining exactly why they came to a particular conclusion, saving everyone else a lot of time. If your ideology rejects fact checking, maybe it means yours ideology is founded on bullshit.
Now hold the bus there, now I just specifically said my “ideology” is based on fact checking myself. Taking what someone else tells you as a fact check is not fact checking and should be called what it is.
Why would someone want you too accept what they say as fact and not look for yourself? Because that have an ideology to push.
Yes, your ideology doesn't work, because essentially you don't have the time to fact-check anything that way.
Have you really checked that the Earth is round? Go debate a flat-earther and see how far personal fact-checking gets you.
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