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…the ad because it misled viewers. No fact-checker has found anything inaccurate in it. In fact, PolitiFact’s review of the ad, allegedly the basis for the censorship, found no false…

…more countries than George W. Bush managed in eight, Politifact recently affirmed—although they had some trouble settling on a precise number. They credited “44” with repeated strikes on Afghanistan, Iraq,…

…notorious fact-checking site PolitiFact, also defended Cuomo against the reports and data that show his policy caused irreparable harm to nursing home and care facilities throughout the state. “I think…

…“as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news.” But wasn’t it true that the White House created a fake set of the Oval Office? No, PolitiFact fact-checkers were quick…

…the Equality Act’s likely harm to girls’ sports. As we reported last week, Politifact deemed an ad APP created to run in Michigan to be “missing context,” but refused to…

…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…

…and black markets, which terror organizations use. In 2016 the fact checker PolitiFact looked into claims by Pennsylvania State Rep. Rick Saccone (yes, that Rick Saccone) that illegal cigarette sales…

…office was the only one even to respond to an inquiry. In her reply, a spokeswoman claimed, “The AP, Politifact, and the Reno Gazette Journal have all reported on this…

…snoozing through a long-winded speech.) Watch him at the 20:12 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yACVtAAVZg “Fact” “checker” PolitiFact, which is surprisingly informative once you realize its verdicts are often indicators that the…

…them. Yesterday The New York Times published an article titled: “Pre-Existing Conditions: Evaluating Competing Claims.” Written by a former PolitiFact fact-checker, it mentions and links to Jimmy Kimmel’s recent viral…

…data from the U.K. shows that vaccinated people are increasingly contracting COVID-19. Earlier this year, Politifact, another leftist organization employed by Facebook to curb “misinformation,” targeted a Federalist article focused…

…went viral garnering more than 15 million on the platform ,despite mainstream fact-checkers such as PolitiFact, Snopes and FacCheck.org each labeling the Democratic charges as false. The resistance Washington Post…

…acting. But for the men and women of CNN, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, AP, and PolitiFact, there is no excuse….

…CNN town hall Thursday, Biden cast direct blame on Trump, unfairly charging the president with being responsible for every death from COVID-19, which even left-leaning PolitiFact rated as flat-out “false.“…

…than Politifact’s “Lie of the Year,” awarded to President Obama for the whopper meant to cover the statement that should have won in 2009: “If you like your health care…

…a Gannett spokesperson wrote in an email to The Federalist. PolitiFact cited the revised version of Abrams’ USA Today op-ed to fact-check claims Abrams ever endorsed corporate boycotts over the…

…terms to deflect criticism. Politifact found a sudden distinction between the number of jobs and the number of workers. How? By redefining “jobs” to mean positions created by employers. But…

…media — doesn’t seem to be falling for it.” PolitiFact likewise celebrated the media’s refusal to cover the Biden family scandal story, writing that “no credible news outlets have reported…

…roundtable in July 2020, earning the then-candidate a “false” rating from PolitiFact.  10. Biden Blames Crime Wave on Covid After Democrats Defunded Police  Biden blamed the coronavirus lockdowns for the…

…committee’s scapegoat of choice for the J6 star chamber? Thomas’s wife, Ginni. Interestingly, PolitiFact concluded that there is no evidence Mrs. Thomas had anything to do with organizing the Jan….

…the communications director for Justice Democrats who referred to Biden’s agenda as “the most progressive platform of any Democratic nominee in the modern history of the party.” Even Politifact conceded,…

…Politifact, a quasi-journalistic operation usually more than willing to carry water for Democrats, called Biden out Tuesday for falsely claiming the Trump administration rejected coronavirus test kits from the World…

…the novel Wuhan coronavirus a ‘hoax’ as false, including PolitiFact, Snopes, FactCheck.org, Check Your Fact, and even the Washington Post, which gave the claim its highest single false rating awarded…

…are “almost immune.” Re-opening would benefit both children and teachers, and allow parents to return to work. Immediately following this assertion, PolitiFact wrote that childhood immunity was a lie, that…

…health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.” As we now know, this was false. Indeed, PolitiFact named it the Lie of the Year for 2013….

…the bogus “fact-checking” organization that largely exists to censor conservatives, and the thoroughly corrupt PolitiFact is the institute’s best-known product. Newmark’s ongoing election meddling is bad enough, but it’s his…

…discredit political opponents of the Left. More or less the same is true of liberal “explanatory journalism” outfits like Vox and Politifact, which exist largely to provide Left-leaning readers with…

…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…

…tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a ‘reality czar.’“ Maybe they’ll elevate someone from the squalid pool of fact-checkers at CNN or PolitiFact. As…

…purchase health care due to major implementation problems with Obamacare. Politifact even named this the lie of the year, a curious move for an outfit that rated the same statement…

…individual market coverage would end on January 1, 2014, for not complying with Obamacare’s regulatory regime. Faced with a political uproar over what PolitiFact later dubbed the “Lie of the…

…insist that America is now “the most respected country on Earth”—a claim even the normally more forgiving folks at PolitiFact rate as only “half-true”—but the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese clearly…

…land, the U.S. doubled is imports of Russian oil, according to the Energy Information Administration. The writers at PolitiFact rated the claim “mostly false” despite its own explanation of the…

…Since 2013, the cost of California firefighting has more than tripled (an increase of $531 million), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and PolitiFact. Two things…

…founded ISIS” pic.twitter.com/Df7NZMxPge Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 11, 2016 Politifact gave the claim one of their vaunted “pants on fire” rulings: The “fact” “check” admits that both President Barack Obama’s…

…decline dramatically. Like Obama’s “like your plan” pledge, which PolitiFact dubbed the “Lie of the Year” for 2013, Harris’ plan rests on optimistic scenarios that have little possibility of coming…