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CNN Defends Decision to Not Fact-Check Debate Live: ‘It Is Up to the Candidates to Challenge One Another’
CNN defended its decision to not intervene to correct misstatements live on-air during the Trump-Biden debate.
CNN, facing an avalanche of criticism for letting false claims by Donald Trump go unchecked during Thursday night’s debate with President Biden, defended its decision to not intervene to correct misstatements live on-air. The format for the debate, in which CNN moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were to act as facilitators and not step in as fact-checkers, was agreed to by both Trump and Biden camps. But the litany of falsehoods, particularly from Trump, that were aired by CNN without any comment or follow-up questions, yielded a strong backlash from media critics and others.
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