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Fact-checkers face intimidation in Eastern Europe as USAID cuts embolden authoritarian tactics
Milijana Rogač was walking to work in late February when she got a push notification from a local tabloid reporting that police were raiding the offices of several Serbian civil […]
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Fact-checking has become a familiar tool for political reporters to hold office-holders and candidates accountable. But critics ask if fact-checkers sometimes miss the forest for the trees, and if the practice often struggles with false equivalency the way conventional political coverage does.