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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…

…platform is filled with socialist/communist ideas. Mamdani envisions government-run grocery stores, free bus fares, free childcare, and government housing. But PolitiFact, which fancies itself the nation’s ultimate fact checker, has…

…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…

I can only imagine how much delusion filled the room of the PolitiFact “brainstorming” session to choose the “winning” selection of its latest “Lie of the Year.” Bonchie at RedState…

…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…

…the U.S. border-is-out-of-control campaign agenda to a new level.” Naturally, PolitiFact continued to link the allegations of Haitian pet-hunting to white nationalism. “The earliest rumors PolitiFact found of Haitians stealing…

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…

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,…

A “misinformation” reporter for the far-left fact-checking organization PolitiFact who tried to discredit The Federalist’s report on Haitian immigrants hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio, has a history of whitewashing far-left…

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…

…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…

…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,…

…and PolitiFact don’t get to have it both ways. PolitiFact concedes they took Facebook’s money, but that doesn’t mean they share any responsibility for Facebook justifying censorship with the services…

…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…

…Poynter Institute, a nonprofit that aims to bolster ethical journalism.” The Poynter Institute runs one of the most notorious mass censorship organizations, the egregiously politicized PolitiFact. PolitiFact is one of…

…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…

…green energy initiatives. The tag used articles penned by Politifact and the Chinese-funded Lead Stories to claim that the Federalist article was “missing context” and “could mislead people.” After a…

…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…

…Public “Fact-checkers” like Politifact, Snopes, and the Poynter Institute claim to be nonpartisan, but often silenced dissent. In 2020, Big Tech colluded with such services to censor speech about the…

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…