Reuters pushes a fake fact check on Facebook to defend Obama and Clinton.

On a Facebook fact check, Reuters posts a false fact check filled with straw man arguments, ad hominem attacks and opinion disguised as fact.

The article begins with a straw man attack and complete fallacy.

It would appear Reuters does not want honest and open debate and is using their platform to shut down opposing views.

This is not an honest endeavor.

Binary fact checking is simple. Where other fact checks look into several different aspects of a situation, incident, speech, event, or so on, we take things item by item to see where the facts are. Taking a grand sweeping overview and forming an opinion is not checking the facts. Originally fact checkers were involved in journalism to do just this. They checked the facts before publishing because there were consequences for printing false stories. The safeguards were removed several years ago leading to spin replacing facts. Our intention is to return to actual fact checking. We check the facts so the viewer, or reader, can make form an opinion based upon the facts.