The US presidential election resulted in many losers – Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party, identity politics, the Hollywood elite, Net Zero, open borders globalism, gender theory, the bureaucracy – but one more must be added to the list: ‘fact-checking’.

After the first presidential debate on CNN between Donald Trump and then Democrat candidate Joe Biden, the moderators were criticised by other left-wing media for not interjecting more to ‘fact check’ the ‘misinformation’ being spread by Trump.