I use fact checkers for the opposite reason. When an issue interests me to the point I want to research I start by trying to find out views opposite to mine or proves the opinion I have is factually incorrect.
Fact checking sites are but one resource we should use for research.
Ultimately, fact-checking is a much more subjective enterprise than we would like it to be. Truth is real but sometimes difficult to ascertain, particularly when political ideologies and motivated reasoning are involved. To eschew these pitfalls, fact-checkers need to be keenly sensitive to such biases. Otherwise, fact-checkers will be seen as simply another manifestation of “fake news.”
Newsguard is another over-rated arbitrator of bias…not truth.
Just like our favorite political screwup Biden snopes was busted plagiarizing.