Political figures once dreaded being hit with a fact-check.

Whether it’s receiving Pinocchios from The Washington Post or earning “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, the fact-checker industry used to carry a lot of weight with large swaths of Americans across all political stripes.

But times have changed, at least to now-former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, who suggested that he and his fact-checking colleagues were on their heels in his final piece for the paper last month titled “The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.”

Kessler lamented how social media platforms allow falsehoods to spread faster and the rise of Donald Trump, who he referred to as a “fact-checker’s dream … and nightmare” after his first campaign launch in 2015, had e

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