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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moderators let a good 90% of Trump's lies go unchecked. If anything, they went easy on him. [/quote]

The role of a debate moderator is to ask questions to initiate discussion, keep the participants on topic as best they can, maintain order by cutting off participants when their allotted speaking time has expired, and most importantly, to remain neutral. Suggesting moderators should play a role in fact checking opens the door to moderator bias creating an uneven playing field. Fact checking is to be done by the intended audience which in this case is the American people. There are neutral media sources we can turn to for accurate fact checking if we can step out of our political bubbles long enough to seek out sources of unbiased information.

I don't have a problem with the moderators fact checking some of Trump's obvious untruths as we saw last night. Most statements by both candidates were based on half truths and question dodging and the moderators correctly refrained from adding their two cents in response to the half truths and question dodging. Overall, it was a cleaner and less embarrassing for the country debate. Harris had a better showing in this debate.[/quote]

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