There Would Be No Push For Fact-Checkers If Corporate Media Did Its Job



Fact-checkers at the influential Poynter Institute’s fact-checking newsletter were dragged on Twitter Thursday after posting a deeply unserious article about Clubhouse, the new audio-based social media app that made headlines last weekend when Elon Musk used it to talk stock trading with Vlad Tenev, the CEO of Robinhood.

Setting aside the nuts and bolts of the app itself, it’s not a social media platform that can be easily fact-checked because the conversations are live, there’s no text or images, and nothing is saved (as far as I can tell it’s like radio except not everyone can listen in).

This clearly bothers a couple of fact-checkers at Poynter, who averred that the lack of archived posts or audio files “will surely produce barriers for fact-checkers. It will be not only hard to choose what club to join but Clubhouse also requires that fact-checkers listen to hours and hours of conversations before selecting what claims should be assessed.”

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