An industry that started in the 1990s by fact-checking chain emails and Bigfoot sightings has evolved over the past decade into the American political left’s strongest tool in justifying the censorship of their political opposition and shaping the national narrative in their favor.
There may have been a brief era where the fact-checkers fact-checked facts—now they fact-check reality itself.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros (2022), Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York (2021), Debunk This!: Shattering Liberal Lies (2019), and Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump (2018).