FILE _ CNN's Dana Bash, left, and Jake Tapper listen as they moderate a presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. There were exhaustive, independent fact-checks of claims made during the CNN debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on Thursday, June 27, but none available to the millions of people watching the two presidents in real time.
“I wish the CNN moderators did more fact-checking, letting the audience know when things are said that are flatly false,” columnist Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times wrote on X. “Not sure how it helps for a platform to transmit falsehoods disguised as facts.”That said, “for them to be completely silent, I think, was going too far,” said Adair, who is no longer affiliated with Politifact.