Here’s the Real Problem With the ‘Fact-Check Industrial Complex’

July 21st, 2022 4:04 PM

President Joe Biden's clumsy flub lit up the internet last week after he read the teleprompter's private instructions to “repeat the line” during a White House speech on pro-abortion tactics.

Free Beacon Mocks Biden-Backing 'Fact Checkers' as Democrat Spinners

July 17th, 2022 7:25 AM

Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler huffed and puffed on Tuesday about "The misplaced outrage over Hunter Biden and U.S. oil reserves bought by China." One of the "liars" in this outrage was the Washington Free Beacon. In an editorial, they replied "We at the Washington Free Beacon love the fact-checkers. When they’re 'fact-checking' us, we know we must be doing something…

PolitiFact: 'Mostly False' to Say Some States Have No Abortion Limits

July 14th, 2022 7:02 AM

PolitiFact has a tremendously annoying habit of tagging pro-life groups as "Mostly False" for saying something that's True. Blue states like Oregon, Vermont, and New Mexico have no prohibitions on abortions. But somehow it's "Mostly False" to say you can get an abortion at any time for any reason.

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PolitiFact Claims Biden's 'Mostly True'! USA Now an Abortion 'Outlier'

June 26th, 2022 7:28 PM

PolitiFact’s routine tendency to defend President Biden’s accuracy in his public proclamations continued within hours of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on Friday. Biden claimed America was now an “outlier among developed nations” in the world. They ruled "Mostly True"! In truth, America was an outlier before Friday.

PolitiFact Slams DeSantis Press Aide for 'Harassment,' She Slams Back

June 14th, 2022 11:09 PM

Florida-based PolitiFact picked a fight with Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and she didn’t shrink from the fight. PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan wrote a fundraising piece titled “PolitiFact reporters face online harassment; we keep fact-checking anyway.“

NY Times 'Fact Checker' Nitpicks Cruz, Trump Remarks at NRA Meeting

May 31st, 2022 12:42 PM

On Friday, New York Times "fact checker" Linda Qiu evaluated claims made by Sen. Ted Cruz and former president Donald Trump at the NRA convention in Houston. Her nitpicking of Cruz as "misleading" and "exaggerating" was especially selective and shape-shifting.

REPORT: Even Facebook Fact-Checkers Disagree on ‘Energy Independence’

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May 24th, 2022 11:50 AM

Facebook and Instagram censored conservatives for their American energy independence statements even though fact-checkers disagreed on essential facts underlying the censored posts.

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AP Runs Pathetic Fact-Check Defending Biden Disinformation Czar

May 17th, 2022 6:58 PM

The Associated Press desperately tried to defend the self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of disinformation” from her own words and ended up undercutting itself in the process.

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Kudos to CNN: The ONLY Outlet Flagging Biden's FAKE Vaccine Tweet

May 15th, 2022 8:07 AM

Kudos to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale for being the first (and so far, ONLY) of his kind to throw a flag at President Biden for his blatantly false tweet at 5:45 pm on Thursday that there was "no vaccine available" when he took office. This was blatantly obvious to any journalist with a memory, but CNN alone discussed it.

WashPost Screams Biden 'Cannot Be Faulted' on Baby Formula Shortage

May 15th, 2022 6:55 AM

Conservative media outlets published a shocking story about the baby formula shortage, that illegal immigrants were getting formula where normal citizens were not. The "fact checkers" jumped in to proclaim this was missing context: the federal government was legally obligated to help illegal immigrants.

PolitiFact Cries LIE on Kentucky Derby 'Horse's Ass' JOKES About Biden

May 11th, 2022 12:23 PM

The Democrat "fact check" website calling itself PolitiFact is so fervently dedicated to defending President Biden that it's repeating its lame fact checks of previous Kentucky Derby jokes. On Monday, staff writer Monique Curet threw a "Pants on Fire" rating at a Facebook user named Eddie Foley -- with about 1,300 friends at this juncture -- for repeating a joke about Biden being insulted as a…

Free Beacon: PolitiFact Falsely Claims Mission to Check Politicians

May 10th, 2022 6:36 AM

Andrew Stiles at the Washington Free Beacon proclaimed PolitiFact was "PANTS ON FIRE" in a Monday fundraising email sent by their audience director, Josie Hollingsworth. "Help us hold politicians accountable," she begged. Stiles turned that around in fact-check style, and evaluated a month of the website's contents.

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Journalism? Nah! PolitiFact Runs Stupid Fact-Check on Elon Musk

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May 5th, 2022 11:57 AM

Tesla CEO Elon Musk correctly slammed NBC News for trying to bury the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Phony fact-checker PolitiFact tapped into all levels of Pravda to pretend that wasn’t true.

PolitiFact Throws 'False' Flag at RNC Over ONE Word in a Biden Speech

April 29th, 2022 5:23 PM

How exquisitely sensitive can PolitiFact be? On Thursday, "fact checker" Samantha Putterman slammed the Republican National Committee as "False" for leaving out one word of a Biden quote about the children belonging to teachers as "missing context."