First off, let’s be real, the internet is a dumpster fire of “information.” You gotta be *super* careful what you believe. And when you see groups like Judicial Watch popping up, you kinda have to squint and ask, “Okay, what’s the *real* deal here?”
Like, Media Bias/Fact Checking (which, tbh, I take with a grain of salt itself, because *everyone’s* got an angle) says they aren’t always on the up and up. Politifact and Snopes, those OG debunkers, have called them out on publishing, shall we say, *creative interpretations* of reality.
Now, I’m not saying Judicial Watch is *always* lying. That’d be, like, totally unfair. But the fact that they’ve been dinged for it? That’s a big ol’ red flag waving in the breeze.
Then you got the whole “Hyper-Partisan Right” label from Ad Fontes Media. Okay, that’s not exactly a secret, right? They definitely lean hard in one direction. Which, fine, everyone’s entitled to their opinion. But when your news is filtered through a super-biased lens, you gotta wonder if you’re getting the whole story, ya know?
And get this, even the AllSides Bias Rating – and I’ve seen some *interesting* ratings from those guys – initially gave them a “lean right.” But they said it *might* change with feedback. So, even they were like, “Hmm, maybe we need to rethink this.”
Personally, I think the biggest problem isn’t necessarily that Judicial Watch *intentionally* makes stuff up (though the fact-checks suggest otherwise sometimes). It’s that they might be so caught up in their own agenda that they see what they *want* to see, and then report it as gospel. Which, ya know, isn’t exactly great journalism.
Oh! And I saw something about a Brazilian court dealing with fake news, too. Weird tangent, but kinda relevant in the grand scheme of things, right? Fake news is a global problem.
