The CNN Presidential debate in 2024 had no fact-checking, while the ABC News debate saw its moderators aggressively fact-check Donald Trump. Will the moderators of the Vice Presidential debate on October 1 fact-check any of the candidates?
This market resolves to YES if the moderators correct one of the candidates and state or imply that a statement is false while the debate is LIVE, on-air. If the debate is cacelled, the market will resolve to N/A. Otherwise, it will resolve to NO.
This was one of the fact checks, and I also believe there was another time when one of the moderators stated that global warming was supported by most scientists. Therefore, this market resolves to YES.
As I stated below, this was basically a dice roll, as not even the moderators knew what was going to happen when they actually got out ont he stage. Public speaking is hard and one usually has to improvise.
Looks like they're doing something different: real-time fact checking... via QR code that links to their site. I feel like they may even be discouraging the moderators from jumping in with fact checks just to push people there.
@ChrisSnyder I think what they say and what they do are two different things, though.
There were quite a few lies that were pretty far out there during the Presidential debates. But I do think that both Vance and Walz are out there to not rock the boat, so they will probably stick to boilerplate talking points.
[Didn’t read the description closely enough never mind]