Fact-Checking Beyond America

“When I interview a Russian person or a Turkish person and tell them that a fact checker is going to call on the phone and confirm everything, they can’t wrap their heads around it. Russians are eventually like, ‘Oh OK, your paper really wants to avoid a lawsuit.’ But Turkish people take it as a sign that I’m a junior person. They’re like, ‘Oh, poor thing, your boss still doesn’t trust you. They still have to check up on you.’”
 — Elif Batuman.