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Joe Rogan Mistakenly Blasts Biden’s Mental Fitness Over Something Trump Actually Said (variety.com)

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[–] Furbag 4 points 9 months ago

Fact checking ideally happens before you start attributing quotes to people, forming an opinion about it, and making calls to take action.

Fact checking after the falsehood has already been stated is no longer fact checking, it's simply correcting the record.

There's the famous quote: "A lie can travel halfway across the globe before the truth can even get it's pants on.". Very relevant here. He made a big deal about Biden being unfit for office, but when the record was corrected there was no mention of Trump's fitness (not to mention it being old news in the first place). The damage was done already.