GlennKessler

Great to have someone checking facts. I always check Kessler after important events like this. Generally, I agree with findings. But many lies go unchecked. When Sanders says that we pay 10 times more for drugs in US than Canada, that is not true. We pay more but not 10 times more. When Sanders says we can lower drug prices by 50%, that can’t be true if average profit margin is 15-18%. These facts can be verified!

Idk if I’m just not using this correctly, or what, but all of the highlighted fact checking articles are just trump criticisms or proving he lied or fibbed. I tried searching “checks” on current Washington Post articles, CNN articles, MSNBC articles, just to try and balance out the bias, but it didn’t show anything of the sort; I tried searching major DNC congressional names related to articles, nothing. Plenty of Trump criticisms and Fox News checks (not that I don’t care, but I get that enough from any stream source). But I couldn’t really find any balance. There were som leftist centered criticism, but as I was reading, there’s a clear feeling of excuse given for leftists who “made a mistake” but a more resentful writing approach to stories about right leaning sources and issues. So really, it seems like it’s just a more source based echo for articles Kessler wants to “fact check”, but it seems to be heavily trump criticisms, echoing of leftish-msm and adding sources (which you’d think all of those sources would already do), and the writing kinda feels like the usually subtle bias you get from reading any Washington Post article, rather unsurprisingly. The Pinocchio system just seems a more subtle way to bias how much the devs or writer (don’t know if it’s all Kessler) thinks fibs or lies are impactful, but I don’t find those ratings based in objective logic, more subjective feeling. If you are an independent thinker and want something that checks all sources of news media for bias or lies, or at least balances its “checks” this isn’t for you. If you want to confirm your assumptions or dislike for Trump, or get sources that more or less support msm, or long winded explanations as to why obvious lies are lies, in a similar style and bias as the WP, this app is for you.I choose to just search for answers online from various sources that state their bias up front, especially after trying our Kessler’s App - making sure not to use google tho.

I love the design of the app, it makes reading the articles and understanding the content so incredibly clear and straightforward. A refreshing take on news from both the app designer and the article writer himself. Lovely app lovely content 10/10 recommend