Wayback Machine Archive.org Adds Fact Check to Archive

[engine]

The Wayback Machine, archive.org, has said it's slowly adding fact check to its archive pages.

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[phranque]

unfortunately "facts" change over time so how will this work? wrt the time the page was created? archived? "today"?

[JorgeV]

If it's said online, it's the truth.

[lucy24]

The cited example is pretty narrowly constrained. afaik, the numbers of congressional bills (“SB blahblah”) aren't reused, so any given bill either does or does not include some specific content. You then need to check the article's date and compare it with the dates of amendments, which of course will alter the content. And that's where archiving comes in: the more immediate Official Sources only show today's version, which may well differ from last week's version and next month's.

[tangor]

Heh ... if critical thinking was taught in education folks would KNOW to check sources and dates by themselves and not need a "fact check".

Worse, seeming to believe a fact check is necessary is an immediate implication that the content is false which is misleading or deceptive at best or an outright lie at worst.

And lastly, who checks the fact checkers?