This is why people don’t trust ‘fact-checkers’

Published December 30, 2016 7:04pm ET



There was a collective eye roll in right-leaning circles earlier this year after Facebook announced it would team up with third-party fact-checkers to combat the rise of fake news.

There is a good reason for the exasperated reaction: Certain fact-checking sites are themselves none too reliable when it comes to discerning fact from fiction.

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