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…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…

…The same problem exists within so-called fact-checking, where the organizations the media and public rely on to call balls and strikes, like Snopes, PolitiFact and the Southern Poverty Law Center…

…notes on Twitter that PunditFact and PolitiFact are funded by a large and active Clinton Foundation donor and partner, a fact PunditFact conveniently failed to disclose in its defense of…

…ever.” Slate calls abortion Planned Parenthood’s ‘premium product,’ likening it to a store that sells luxury watches. Media Matters and PolitiFact have pointed out that abortion services, which bring in…

…some outlets such as PolitiFact, the sham “fact-checker” website that has a clearly leftist bias, painted the CRT legislation popping up in multiple states as a way to make teachers…

…Muslims. As Politifact has noted, between October 1, 2014 and July 17, 2015, 906 people have arrived from Syria, and 96 percent of them are Muslims, while only 3 percent…

…Mia Love (R-Utah). Instead, if a woman requires a mammogram after getting a breast exam at a Planned Parenthood clinic, “you’re referred to a radiological clinic.” PolitiFact tried to provide…

…former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker used the term “illegal alien” in 2018 and PolitiFact sicced its bogus “truth-o-meter” on him, Barnes clapped back: “The debate here shouldn’t be whether the…

…like your plan, you can keep it,” and mass cancellations of Medicare Advantage plans would have exposed what in 2013 became PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year.” Instead, the Obama administration…

…used to punish Facebook for Clinton’s loss. PolitiFact named “Fake news” the lie of the year. All the anti-Trump outlets got a piece of the narrative. Pope Francis and former…

…to at least 4.7 million people, by one count, leading PolitiFact to call Obama’s repeated claims that “If you like your plan, you can keep it” its “Lie of the…

…while breaking Senate rules, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) pushed a false narrative that was debunked by The Washington Post and PolitiFact about Kavanaugh’s views of birth control. But it…

…read in a long time.” PolitiFact even rated a claim by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that cited this data “half-true,” but only because she mixed up the top 1 percent…

…Hoeg study’s publication, the British Medical Journal claimed critics called the study “deeply flawed” and said it delivered “an antivaccine message.” PolitiFact reported that posts about myocarditis risk on Facebook…

…as opposed to its larger, corporatized producers. As PolitiFact noted in a piece on Trump’s statements: The Trump campaign is talking about Clinton’s proposal to raise the tax rate for…

…promise turned out not to be true—millions of Americans received cancellation notices as Obamacare took effect, and PolitiFact named Obama’s campaign pledge its “Lie of the Year.” Given that tortured…

…can also check out the John Podesta email leak, if you like, to see how Democrats work with reporters. You can read the Pulitzer Prize-winning “factcheckers” at PolitiFact to know…

…easily” unwind Dodd-Frank. That statement was awarded an overly-generous “half-true” (a.k.a., half totally made up and bonkers) rating by Politifact. Ultimately, few conservatives are going to complain if Warren is…

…United States had done more tests in eight days than South Korea had done in eight weeks. PolitiFact calculated the United States had done 17,582 fewer tests than South Korea…

…counted as pre-existing conditions. But so would any number of other conditions resulting from other tragic and unfortunate events. In other words, this headline is so misleading that even PolitiFact…

…Thursday night, was awarded 2013 “Lie of the Year” by none other than left-wing commentator PolitiFact. Whether Biden is denying the existence of the entire affair, or whether he’s insisting…

…is passed (PolitiFact rated this as “mostly true”). The Center for American Progress did some back-of-the-envelope calculations showing that Senate Republicans’ health-care bill will lead to 217,000 more deaths over…

…PolitiFact. As with Obamacare, Biden’s promise will echo hollow. By creating a government-run “public option” like Sanders’, the Biden plan would also take away health coverage for millions of Americans….

…jab, and all three vaccine manufacturers claimed to NPR in August of 2021 that “they have not seen evidence that any of the vaccines cause menstrual irregularities.” Politifact even ran…

…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…

…Salon piece this contention is based on, but it has nothing to do with banning condoms. All of this is very obvious. So I look forward to the Politifact and…

…site PolitiFact even made concerns about Ebola it’s “Lie of the Year.” You may remember that NBC journalist Nancy Snyderman broke her Ebola quarantine, to the outrage of her neighbors….

…the Washington Post. Mother Jones alone did at least 14 stories pegged to the group’s ‘research,’” Taibbi stressed, adding, “Even fact-checking sites like Politifact and Snopes cited Hamilton 68 as a source.” But there was a problem…

…to the sugar lobby, a powerful special interest group in Florida. Thankfully, this laughable accusation was set straight by PolitiFact, which rated the claim “Pants on Fire!” and noted “the…

…effective January 1, 2014. The notices demonstrated the emptiness of Obama’s repeated promises that individuals who liked their plans could keep them—PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year.” Moreover, the malfunctioning website…

…who also helped launch PolitiFact, would investigate the rise of fake news and propose recommendations to a Democratic White House and Congress to cement the corporate media and big tech’s…

…nursing home policy scandals — also piled onto the pro-Biden narrative. “PolitiFact found no evidence to support the idea that Joe Biden advocated with his son’s interests in mind,” Cuomo…

…White House (@WhiteHouse) June 18, 2015 At the very best, as Politifact might put it, his comments are half true. I’ve gone back and read Obama’s remarks over the years…

…million dollars more in Social Security benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes. One Politifact piece from 2013 showed that on average government spends more than double on each…

…a staunch supporter of Ukraine,” she reminded while McMullin’s campaign paints Lee as a pro-Russian puppet in an ad rated “mostly false” by even left-wing PolitiFact. Since his campaign kickoff…