Fact checker objective: Teaching people to think by checking facts and encourage people to ask questions.

This will benefit the reader by enabling them to keep an open mind rather than blindly following the accepted opinions of others.

Potential: 

• Encouraging people to think by asking questions and becoming fellow fact checkers.
• Preventing indoctrination of people by giving them the confidence to avoid following the crowd. 

Next time you read an article ask yourself:

1. Is it true?
2. What makes it look true?
3. What part is untrue?
4. Are even the proven truths such a big deal in the great scheme of things?