Can I make a suggestion ...

... to all pundits, commenters, and all morons in the media (traditional and otherwise) and similar ilk?

Please, PLEASE stop uttering the term 'fact-check'. That is a stupid term.

Facts are statements have been confirmed to be correct. They do not need to be checked because they have already been done so and repeatedly such that it's now a standard. Or as defined  -

A fact (derived from the Latin factum) is something that has really occurred or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability, that is whether it can be proven to correspond to experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by repeatable experiments.


A fact that suddenly needs to be 'checked' is not a fact, but merely just a statement. And people who utter this often times put themselves by their statements as the sudden arbiter of reality and all things fact, when if what's being said is a fact, it doesn't need to be checked.

Next time you hear someone rambling on and on about fact-checking, likely they're a moron.