Exactly How Corporate Media Launders Opinion To Attack Inconvenient People And Facts
It’s called ‘the news,’ and here’s how it worked for Arkansas’ Sen. Tom Cotton’s completely plausible theory that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab.
PolitiFact Quietly Retracts Fact Check Of COVID-19 Wuhan Lab Theory
Fact-checker Politifact, operated by the Poynter Institute, retracted a fact check asserting a Hong Kong virologists’ lab theory assessment was false.
USA Today Retroactively Edits Stacey Abrams’s Op-Ed To Downplay Her Call For Georgia Boycotts
USA Today retroactively edited an op-ed from Stacey Abrams this month that initially endorsed corporate boycotts of Georgia.
PolitiFact’s Angie Holan Denies Cuomo Guilt On Nursing Home Deaths, Blames Care Employees
‘When the state was asking nursing homes to take in COVID patients…We don’t see hard evidence that that made a significant difference in COVID deaths.”
PolitiFact Is Ticked That We Fact-Checked Their False Fact-Check Of Our Fact-Check Of Their Fact-Check
PolitiFact has still not published a fact-check of Harris’s erroneous assertion the Biden White House had to start ‘from scratch’ with vaccine distribution.
Andrew Cuomo Didn’t Create The Myth Of Andrew Cuomo, Corporate Media Did
The myth of Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Master of Pandemics, Destroyer of Trump, Boyfriend of America didn’t create itself: It was the creation of U.S. media.
PolitiFact Not Very ‘Interested’ In Fact-Checking Vice President
Kamala Harris blatantly lied to Axios this week claiming the new administration was forced to start “from scratch” with vaccine distribution.
PolitiFact Doubles Down On Garbage ‘Fact-Check’ Of Cuomo’s Deadly Nursing Home Policy
PolitiFact doubled down on one of its “fact-checks” to defend New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s fatal nursing home policy, saying it’s still wrong to blame him.
PolitiFact Stays Silent On ‘Fact-Check’ Defending Cuomo’s Deadly Nursing Home Policy
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.
Corporate Media’s Obsession With Fact-Checking Is A Mission To Monopolize The Truth
There’s no shortage of fake-fact checks published by corporate outlets self-righteously and falsely presenting themselves as neutral arbiters of truth.
The Corporate Takeover Of ‘Fact-Checking’ Is Just A Different Path To The Same Partisan Censorship
Over the past several years, dressed up in official-sounding titles, the fact-checkers have allied themselves with some of the most powerful private companies to have ever existed.
In Latest Slip-Up, Joe Biden Says 200 Million Have Died From COVID-19
In his latest campaign trail slip-up, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed Sunday that 200 million people have died from the novel virus.
PolitiFact Disqualifies Itself In Debate Over Ad On Girl’s Sports
Tech outlets like Facebook rely increasingly on third-party fact-checkers to determine what content is allowed on their platforms. Here’s a look at how those fact-checkers do business.
Fact-Checkers Admit Trump’s Pledge Of Allegiance Claim Is True But Rate It ‘Mostly False’
Multiple fact-checkers botched a fact-check of online outrage over the Democratic National Convention twice omitting ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Trump Campaign Calls Twitter’s Bluff On Misleading Campaign Clips
Twitter appears to have walked back its position on flagging campaign video and audio clips.
Here’s The Problem With PolitiFact’s ‘Lie Of The Year’
The online conspiracy theory about the Parkland kids was ugly, but it wasn’t the most significant lie of the year.
PolitiFact’s Double Standard Makes Oklahoma Teachers Look Poorer Than They Really Are
So-called fact-checking outfit PolitiFact is fine with considering cost-of-living differences in California or New York, just not in Oklahoma.
Scott Pruitt Is Absolutely Right About Carbon Dioxide
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is absolutely correct about carbon dioxide, and it’s the media who don’t understand the scientific issues.
4 Recent Examples Show Why No One Trusts Media ‘Fact Checks’
The media can’t get enough of ‘fact checks.’ But why do they do such a horrible job with them? Here are a few particularly bad examples.
How PolitiFact Slants Its Truth Ratings Against Republicans
PolitiFact presents itself as a nonpartisan truth umpire, but here’s the story behind how its metrics are biased against Republicans and highly attuned to political winds.
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