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>Can anyone cite an example of a major-media news story that was actually factually wrong in a way that "open source fact checking" could have detected it?

The Supermicro """backdoor""" story of late last year, where Bloomberg alleged that the company had surreptitiously placed small microchips on nearly all their products on behalf of China without anyone noticing

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Was that ever conclusively disproved? By whom? And with what evidence?

That could well fall under he said she said.

That could well fall under he said she said.

That doesn't seem like a sensible standard, most reporting falls under 'our sources said vs what someone else said'. Many details of this particular story were later disputed by others, including Apple. Would a crowd-sourced fact-checking service have helped here? No, because it wasn't at all necessary. It's still a story with serious problems - it's 'the anonymous sources of the reporters' vs 'just about everybody else involved'.

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