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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…

…PolitiFact fact-checked the 2016 race. The Truth, On Average First we ranked truth values to see how PolitiFact rates different individuals and aggregate groups on a truth scale. PolitiFact has…

…a partisan position. Asked politely by APP and a media outlet to explain why this particular ad earned that label, PolitiFact refused. PolitiFact also refused to engage with reasonable evidence…

…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…

…Solicitor General and law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, took to Twitter Tuesday, calling on PolitiFact to issue a correction. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1425305149635977217 Years ago, Facebook gave PolitiFact the…

…this article was originally published the afternoon of Feb. 17, the latest PolitiFact fact-check of Biden was dated the week prior, on Feb. 10. On Friday morning, PolitiFact demanded The…

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…

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…

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…

Poynter Institute’s Politifact retracted one of its September 2020 fact checks on a virologist from Hong Kong who asserted the coronavirus was man-made in a Chinese lab. Dr. Li-Meng Yan,…

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…

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…

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…

…organization reserves for only the most egregious of lies. “Donald Trump said, ‘Crime is rising.’ It’s not (and hasn’t been for decades),” Politifact declared in its headline. Unfortunately for Politifact,…

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…

…for their awfulness. 3) Mission Creep Is a Real Problem In the New York Times report on the change, PolitiFact showed how they could make things even worse: ‘For PolitiFact,…

…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…

…crew at CNN did a lengthy segment with what they billed as the “non-partisan” Politifact (now that’s funny) explaining that SNL was wrong and had “missed the mark” on its…

…the Clinton Foundation gives only 15 percent of the money it raises to charity, PolitiFact is there for the political ideology assist. If PolitiFact also determines that the foundation is…

…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…

…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…

…to 2012, PolitiFact ran not one, but six columns promoting President Barack Obama’s claims that Americans who liked their health coverage could keep it under the Affordable Care Act while…

…and PolitiFact. But before getting into that, three things should be noted. First, as has often been the case during his political career, in this instance Biden lied. The legislation…

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…

…that 100 percent completely true statement, which PolitiFact admitted is “accurate,” he was afforded a “Mostly True.” Why not just “True”? Well, because PolitiFact wishes Trump would have judged Obama…

…Sparrow helps coordinate, amazingly, directly with Moore. While we talk and eat at the Cracker Barrel, Sparrow gets a text message from Moore, a link to a PolitiFact article about…

…not to say the phrase. Watch it happen here: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1296162100730109953?s=20 PolitiFact followed suit. “The DNC did not omit ‘one nation under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance,” the left-leaning fact-checker…

…Chinese laboratory, have any of those above issued a correction or so much as an update? Of course not. So far, the only thing like that was issued by PolitiFact…

…up in the air.” Not wanting to miss out on all the fun, the left-wing “fact checker” Politifact ran a similar piece on Oct. 3 titled, “Not all results will…

…Oslo, you are completely out of luck. 2) The Ninth Circuit PolitiFact “fact” “checked” a Sean Hannity claim that “The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is…

…that he is enjoying a sweetheart deal by linking to an article on the website PolitiFact, the self-described fact-checking unit of the liberal Tampa Bay Times. That article bends over…

…a rifle. “‘Perfectly legal’ for Rittenhouse to carry a gun? False,” said the leftist Poynter Institute’s Politifact in a phony fact-check, a talking point that picked up steam and undergirded…

…centers and plant aisles all across the state were roped off to prevent the public from purchasing food-growing supplies, including seeds. By April 15, 2020, the fake fact-checkers at Politifact…