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…and the natural theory — whereby the virus was transmitted from animals to humans — Politifact moved to retract its fact check. While the website removed its fact check based…

…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…

…taxpayer funds. Gimmick Factor (scale of one-to-ten): 10. In 2017, the fact checker for the Washington Post said “single-payer advocates are counting savings that might not materialize”—exactly Warren’s strategy. Furthermore,…

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…

…abortions, or the scope of abortion restrictions across the United States. He was commenting solely on Hillary Clinton’s position on abortion. The fact-checkers are checking “facts” that were never even…

…are the facts? There are none in the anti-vaxxer camp; in fact, there is virtually a consensus of the opposite. In the world of vaccine deniers, only unsubstantiated propaganda has…

…satire. Yes, Politifact did defend President Obama against the mean old SNL writers in a piece “Hey SNL! We’ve rated Obama’s promises!” And it’s just as ridiculous and non-fact based…

…Republicans have been talking about the facts all along. Democrats and their allies just don’t like where those facts have been leading. That is because the facts lead to the…

…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…

…noticeable example, Facebook has launched a partnership with media “fact checkers” and boasts that once their media fact-checking partners declare a story false, Facebook kills 85 percent of the traffic…

…happened to me this week. It was brought to my attention a few days ago by another fact checker, from PolitiFact, who wanted to take his own gander at the…

…right. “The entire point of my Op-Ed is that the media ignored the true scandal,” I fired back to Mastio. “And had your fact checkers bothered to look at the…

…a provision the Washington Post fact-checkers even acknowledged. The new law also provides exceptions for “poll officers” to give voters food and water as long as they are not provided…

…should have full confidence they’re promoting objective facts, regardless of their opinions, right? Since the facts being discussed here are so elementary a kindergartner should be able to recognize them,…

…the “fact-check” to “inconclusive” “to reflect further reporting and analysis.” A favorite tool for the fact-checkers to cover for their leftist friends is the “missing context” ruling. A completely true…

…flagged for misinformation based on a supposed “fact-check” by one of its third-party fact-checkers, LeadStories. According to LeadStories, which relies on funding from a mix of Silicon Valley tech giants…

…it was not worth detailed fact-checking.” https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1354105001677877248?s=20 He continued to rattle off the requirements and criteria necessary for a fact-check. “We rarely fact check statements by PR people like Press…

…that fact-checkers listen to hours and hours of conversations before selecting what claims should be assessed,” the author writes. She continues: With the myriad of other platforms fact-checkers are forced…

Fact-checking the fact-checkers ought to be a full-time job. It never ceases to amaze and appall how these pretend nonpartisans can take entirely true statements that threaten the mainstream media’s…

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…

…unavailing. No one is claiming these facts, or other facts the memo summarizes, are false. Not the Democrats. Not the FBI. Not the DOJ. And not the press. Rather, critics…

…ones), opinions are stated as facts, soft sciences are treated as if they’re hard, and propaganda is disseminated as fact. We can only sort this tangled web and discern fact…

…of fact-learning is not to learn just one fact—it is to learn several hundred, which taken together form a schema that helps you to understand the world. Thus, just learning…

…is going to rely on the fact that Flynn entered a guilty plea to condemn the man, they owe the public the full facts, including that Flynn filed a motion…

…the worst intellectual model of all, the method of modern journalism: decide on the story first, then gather the facts. Neil deGrasse Tyson is Carl Sagan 2.0, down to the…

In the midst of the “fake news” hysteria last year, Google launched a project to help curate reliable information for its readers by identifying articles and sites that need fact-checking….

The fact-checking website Snopes.com, wrote a “fact-check” article questioning the satirical nature of the Babylon Bee. Snopes has fact-checked the Babylon Bee many times before. An insider to the fact-check…

…the California Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act (FACT Act). The FACT Act regulated both “licensed” and “unlicensed” crisis pregnancy centers. The FACT Act required “licensed primary care…

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…

…take it up with PolitiFact, take it up with the real fact-checkers because they are the arbiters of truth’,” Osburn said. “And so we see this time and again but…

We live in an emotional age. While some of the same people who extol emotional sentimentality as the highest virtue in life equally claim that “facts matter,” those facts often…

…quickly deal with this fact: The ad is wrong. As countless impartial fact-checkers have noted, the Obama administration memo cited by the Romney team actually gives states flexibility to find…

…record of what you are looking for, as the ‘fact-checking’ industry gets the ‘facts’ wrong on a regular basis. Someone has to be here to fact-check the fact-checkers,” Redfern replied,…

America’s corporate fact-checkers are out of control. Long gone are the days of Snopes assuring readers there isn’t a million dollars waiting in a Nigerian bank account for them. Distant…

…pushback from moderators last night was arguable assertions or half-truths, and Trump was often debating 3-on-1, as he correctly asserted. MOLLIE: Oh man, speaking of “fact checkers” you have got…

…arguably shows that the facts of the matter are in doubt and should be heard by a jury—which rules on the facts—rather than a judge, who rules on the law….