This Brownstone Institute essay by Vinay Prasad asks “For Whom Do the Covid ‘Fact-Checkers’ really Work?”
They certainly don’t work for the good of the public.
Key paragraph: “So here is what blows my mind: We are living in a world where the CDC director can say something that is false, made-up and no institution will say otherwise. At the same time, major, venerable fact checking institutions are literally asserting as fact something which is at best unproven.”