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Mountaineer@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Whilst I didn’t always agree with their pronouncements, having a fact checker at this time seems to me a very important thing.

They include reference to “a new in-house verification reporting team, ABC News Verify”, but that sounds like they’ll only be verifying their own news, which is nice, but not the point.

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Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hopefully the “ABC News” bit is just branding, rather than implying the scope of the checking. The ABC has started putting some things under its “ABC News” banner in recent years, I guess to indicate that they are a serious and trusted source of information.

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Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I didn’t read it that way. Sounds like for whatever reason the RMIT partnership is ending but ABC is going to carry on with it on their own.

This is probably a bad development. RMIT gave the work an extra sense of rigour and independence. It meant liberals and nationals, and conservatives in general couldn’t dismiss their work as just more ABC lefty commie wokeratti greenie stuff, as so many of those people reflexively do now.

The ABC should immediately start looking for a new partner of similar calibre in this ongoing endeavour.

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