'INCREDIBLE'! Reliable Sources 'really clowning itself' with this take on ThinkProgress vs. Weekly Standard

Sarah D | 1:27 PM on September 12, 2018

As Twitchy told you, ThinkProgress got fact-checked on Facebook by the conservative Weekly Standard, who caught them in a bald-faced lie about Brett Kavanaugh.

Based on the name “Reliable Sources” alone, you’d think that Brian Stelter’s CNN show would be committed to factual accuracy. So the “Reliable Sources” newsletter should be applauding Facebook for giving the Weekly Standard the opportunity to hold ThinkProgress accountable for their lie, right?

Wrong:

Facebook does exactly what CNN has been harping about for months but it’s problematic because a liberal outlet got hit. https://t.co/91gjqgSbpJ pic.twitter.com/aLoPUD1rWS

— BT (@back_ttys) September 12, 2018

It’s a good thing CNN doesn’t have an “ideological bent”.

— BT (@back_ttys) September 12, 2018

“The fact check was accurate, but Judd’s thread was viral.” – says so much about the sorry state of media.

— BT (@back_ttys) September 12, 2018

As I said earlier today, the question Oliver should be asking is why facebook’s other fact-checking partners didn’t act on thinkprogress’s post.

— BT (@back_ttys) September 12, 2018

Don’t get mad at the conservative outlet when the so-called non-ideological fact checkers allow a lie to go unchallenged.

— BT (@back_ttys) September 12, 2018

This whole thing is especially rich when you recall these same people got upset that Facebook allowed a mock interview to stay up even though it wasn’t labeled satire.

— BT (@back_ttys) September 12, 2018

CNN puts #FactsFirst … unless those facts make liberals look bad.

This is incredible. @ReliableSources newsletter admits @weeklystandard fact check is accurate and instead of holding @thinkprogress to account, does absurd pearl clutching about how the right can't fact check the left because we can't agree on the facts https://t.co/RceJJEEF2P

— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) September 12, 2018

This tempest *should* prompt more people to ask whether Facebook should be in the fact-checking business in the first place. Instead I'm seeing warnings about the dangers of "ideological" factcheckers from people who breathe ideology. https://t.co/PnIVweTKdv

— Jesse Walker (@notjessewalker) September 12, 2018