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This "humorous" video basically implies that there are no facts at all. "Think for yourself" is exactly the same as "fact checked by independent people" - it sounds good and makes people feel good but in reality is a platitude. Everyone is forced to have some trusted sources simply because you can't be everywhere all the time to gather all the information, forget about understanding it all. We wouldn't have specialized fields if everyone could just do everything or know about everything in a 5 minute web search.Here is a humorous video that sums up the self-styled "fact checkers" most of whom have their own built in bias:
And it's not like social media is exactly a paragon of valid true information. At the very least you can know that a group of people trying to be objective disagree with the post. The traditional algorithms in Social Media don't exactly show "both sides" (which in itself is a problem - it would really be helpful to know roughly how many people and what sorts of people are on each side presented).
Personally, most of the people I've seen complaining about the bias of fact checkers just don't like being told their conspiracy theories are false.