"fact check" equals bullshit, every time

 When someone preciously announces they are going to "fact check", they mean they are going to bullshit.  They are about to push their own agenda using cheap tricks.  This signal is 100% reliable.  No one intending to honestly communicate ever precedes their speech with an announcement they are going to "fact check".

This is a brilliantly simple heuristic.  Once someone promises a "fact check", the only sensible way to interpret what follows, if you bother listening at all, is to assess the pusher's bullshit.  "this is the narrative this propoganda pusher wants to push at me", "how are they doing on the propoganda tricks, or is it just embarassingly bad", and so on.

Similarly, any claim that someone "has been fact-checked", as tho this somehow takes away points from the someone being fact-checked, is merely a sign the claimer is full of shit.

The term "debunk" is now tainted too, and claims using the term "debunk" since 2020 have had a 98% (and increasing) probability of being bullshit.