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Why fact-checking everything makes truth feel more distant

I spend hours fact-checking everything I see online but I'm more confused about what's true than when I started.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The abundance of information and meta-information has created a paralyzing epistemological crisis rather than clarity.

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