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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…

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…

…about something because because Politifact’s agenda is not fact-checking. Politifact is not a fact-checker. It is an implication-checker. If it doesn’t like a claim’s implications, it decides that the claim…

…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…

…Snopes.com, PolitiFact, ABC News, Factcheck.org and the Associated Press will determine which stories are fake for Facebook. Snopes is still coasting on a good reputation it earned when it limited…

…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…

…to me to evaluate state-by-state rankings using some calculation that factors in such diversity. It does not, however, seem fair to PolitiFact. Actually, PolitiFact is fine with considering cost-of-living differences…

PolitiFact’s Gardner Selby tells us Ted Cruz recently “stirred” an Austin crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival by factually describing Hillary Clinton’s position as favoring “abortion without limit.” PolitiFact, in…

…just fact-checked by the Texas Supreme Court. No surprise here — PolitiFact got it wrong. https://twitter.com/timcameron/status/1425424721693270020?s=21 When nearly 60 representatives deserted the job they were elected to do in order…

FactCheck.org has joined Snopes as another sneaky liar with their article on Apr. 25 entitled “California Bill Wouldn’t Ban the Bible.” Although per the “Editor’s note,” “FactCheck.org describes itself is…

…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…

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…

…days, in fact, factcheckers have become extraordinarily literal when rationalizing the former president’s failed promises. All of this is important to note because, no matter how unreliable factcheckers continue to…

PolitiFact will not say whether it plans to retract or revise an article it published in August defending New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s deadly nursing home policy. The so-called fact-check…

PolitiFact doubled down on one of its “fact-checks” to defend New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s fatal nursing home policy, claiming that despite reports and even admissions from the governor’s office…

…“is more widely disputed.” “When this fact-check was first published in September 2020, PolitiFact’s sources included researchers who asserted the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have been manipulated,” the editor’s note…

…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…

…enough, PolitiFact did just that. What’s more, they said it was true! Even by the standards of PolitiFact, which is just hilariously awful at pretending to be authoritative, this fact…

This week, the allegedly unbiased fact-checkers at PolitiFact awarded their “Lie of the Year” award to the “online smear machine” that attempted to “take down Parkland students.” “The attacks against…

In its latest bid to run interference for the Democrat Party, the historically dishonest, left-wing PolitiFact published a “fact-check” of a Federalist article that explores leftist nonprofits’ ploy to use private…

…it was a skit with a giant talking bill and EO. But that part wasn’t fact-checked, obvs. — Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) November 23, 2014   Hi @Goldfarb, why doesn’t your…

Well this is hilarious on multiple levels. PunditFact, which brings all of PolitiFact’s partisanship and intellectual rigor to the pundit class, thinks it’s caught Bill Kristol in a huge, huge…

…of state spokesperson made to “FactCheck” late last week concerning the newly revealed evidence of the 10,300-plus likely illegal votes cast in the November 2020 election. Jones reportedly told FactCheck…

…market. Last week it was announced that one of the largest insurers is pulling out of Ohio — the great state of Ohio.” From the factcheck: Trump decries that some…

PolitiFact Editor-In-Chief Angie Drobnic Holan defended New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s deadly policy that sent patients infected with COVID-19 back to long-term care facilities, instead blaming the disproportionate numbers of…

…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…

…much more than 107,000 people. That’s about .04 percent of the under 65 population. The HHS study was even too much for Factcheck.org and PolitiFact. Factcheck.org said the number wasn’t…

Here is the erstwhile journalism foundation, Poynter, campaigning for red flag laws. https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/1536557140768342017 Here’s a thought experiment: Let’s imagine a law that empowered a court to temporarily nullify the free…

…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…

…approach taken by PolitiFact, which countered Pruitt with this: “‘Pruitt is incorrect. CO2 is a primary contributor to global warming. That fact is not in dispute among climate scientists,’ said…

…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…

…to know the facts, when what she said is not a fact at all. There have been no “cuts” to education in North Carolina. According to FactCheck.org, “Total education funding…

The Facebook-funded censors at Factcheck.org are lying about President Joe Biden’s verbal slip and the White House’s attempt to cover it up. Despite footage and audio clearly showing the gaffe-prone president…

I’m not sure at what point the folks at Merriam-Webster decided it’d be a good idea to become snarky, partisan, liberal hacks, but that time is evidently here. Merriam-Webster as…

…during the civil rights movement. https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1783877375328993575 Even fake fact-checkers at PolitiFact admit there was no record of Biden’s arrest. “Police were called to the home as hundreds of people protested…

Note to PolitiFact: We’ve found your “Lie of the Year” for 2021. Or 2025. Or the next year Democrats take the levers of power in Washington. We submit a claim…