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…Not only does PolitiFact not check Clinton as frequently, but they also often fact-check her by proxy. Strange as it may seem, PolitiFact would often look at someone talking about…

…truth. Politifact can fact-check me, just like I can fact-check Politifact. The difference is that Politifact’s “fact-checks” are used by tech giants to censor opposition media. Essentially, Meta and Politifact…

At fact-checking, no organization is better known than PolitiFact. The online fact-checking project operated by the Tampa Bay Times is synonymous with the concept of the fact-check as a genre…

…saying yesterday morning, “Fact-checkers are eating their Wheaties and getting extra rest since they will be working overtime tonight to separate fact from fiction on this border situation.” As soon…

…of which have no idea how to check anything, least of all facts. The problems with these “fact” “checking” operations are legion. To give but one example, PolitiFact took a…

…the sloppiness and pettiness of the entire PunditFact/PolitiFact operation. To call this a “false claim” is just ridiculous and tarnishes PunditFact far more than Kristol. As soon as the piece…

…has been almost no light between the average liberal activist and average health-care reporter. Or the average “fact checker,” for that matter. “Fact checking” has evolved from an occasionally useful…

…office to enrich himself and his family,” said a congressional investigator for a GOP-led committee. “Almost nobody is fact-checking these biased fact checkers, and they carry a lot of weight…

…the difference between a fact and an opinion is kind of what he’s known for. Fact Checkers Need to Know What Facts Are Last week, there was a more disconcerting…

…refused to make any changes to its bogus fact-check and instead issued an unapologetic counter-statement to its letter. Lead Stories complained that BMJ wouldn’t allow the “fact checkers” to “see…

…recently, he reported on a study showing that fact checkers fail to agree with each other (“Study Shows Fact-Checkers Are Bad at Their Jobs”). Mollie Hemingway has been even more…

…on its platform. Facebook and the factcheckers it pays have a history of targeting The Federalist due not to factual errors but political bias. The more “fact checkers” target a…

…“fact” “checkers” to go to town on this one! https://t.co/CErTynLsb4 Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 5, 2016 In fact, it is illegal for violent felons to purchase guns. And no one can…

…to much stricter standards than politicians on the Left. According to Eugene Kiely, director of Factcheck.org, after Facebook alerts them of potentially fake news, the fact-checkers will send back a…

…as a paid advertisement and slapped a “fact-check” label on the video. Oddly enough, in a Tuesday article, PolitiFact claimed it could not “fact-check” the ad’s central claim. The video…

PolitiFact botched a fact-check of a fact-check in a story exposing the group’s absence of a fact-check. On Friday, PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan twice demanded The Federalist issue a correction…

…identifies potential misinformation for fact-checkers to review and rate. … [I]t leaves the ultimate determination whether information is false or misleading to the fact-checkers. And though Meta has designed its…

If you like liberal ideologues who label inconvenient facts as “false,” then you’ll love PunditFact. Why? Because PunditFact just declared that a demonstrably true fact was false because, according to…

…fact-check the organization’s video. The platform also gave the group’s page a “violation.” https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1171842381617827840?s=20 In an email to The Federalist, Facebook asserted that its fact checkers were independently certified by…

…people—even Democrats—don’t believe the “fact checkers” because they are too often biased. As Rasmussen reports, “Most voters believe news organizations play favorites when it comes to fact-checking candidates’ statements.” This…

Who will fact check the fact checkers? That question reared its head again late last week, as a reporter from Politico attempted to add “context” to health-care-related comments the president…

…… blackberrying [blackberry-picking]. By contrast, cities often offered somewhat better living standards. Far more women sought factory work than there were factory jobs available. Factory Work Could Mean Freedom A…

…Left-wing media create false accounts, the fact-checkers use those accounts to substantiate their fact-checks, and Big Tech uses those fact-checks to nuke from the public square those opinions that don’t…

…used to work at a publication that, like USA Today, was also a participant in Facebook’s fact-checking program. Facebook funds the fact-checking programs at these publications, even though these same…

…Americans were inoculated, according to Bloomberg News. PolitiFact has remained silent on Harris peddling the blatant falsehood, however, with corporate media’s purported premier fact-checking organization not listing a single fact-check…

…about fact-checking to cement a monopoly on truth, when many of its “fact-checks” aren’t truthful at all. The USA Today story is no isolated incident of erroneous fact-checking. From 2008…

…prior, Facebook used a PolitiFact check to block a conservative ad campaign. The check claimed PolitiFact could not fact-check the ad because it can’t fact-check the future, but its editor…

Way back in 2011, I started crusading against the dishonesty of the media’s so-called “fact checkers.” I gained some notoriety and did a whirlwind of media on the subject for…

…produce barriers for fact-checkers. It will be not only hard to choose what club to join but Clubhouse also requires that fact-checkers listen to hours and hours of conversations before…

A few weeks ago, Donald Trump responded to Meryl Streep’s insults by calling her overrated. Some fact checks came out saying that Streep, in fact, had won many awards. The…

…of impartiality, fact-checkers often engage in a uniquely dishonest style of partisanship. And State of Union coverage gave us an abundance of examples of how they do it: Hyper-precision fact-checking…

…has time to fact-check the fact-checkers? That’s what the fact-checkers are counting on. And that’s not fair. Note: the Attorney General of New York who filed suit against Trump University…

…Stories has been censoring stories from The Federalist and other non-leftist outlets despite making documented factual errors that boost Democrat-friendly narratives. Susca approved its application for Facebook fact-checker three times…

…cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work.” Even the usually odious media “fact checkers” admit the bit about people injecting themselves with disinfectants is…

…debunked the Politifact “fact check” in the most officious way possible. Yet Poynter-owned Politifact has refused — even to this day — to correct its “fact check.” Predictably, Politifact’s fake…

…be better off if they had. 1. It’s not a story until there are facts (and claims aren’t facts). Everyone knows the default mode of the media: figure out the…