From the Reagan years to today, conservatives have been dismissed by the elites as ignorant chumps. Thirty years after Dukakis lost 40 states, nothing’s changed, and it’s precisely this long-standing ideological arrogance – that conservatives are both intellectually challenged and the most resistant to what “objective” journalists define as reality – that informs the “fact checkers.”
The “fact-checkers” at Snopes recently rated a popular Turning Point USA meme “mostly false” in what appeared to be a misunderstanding of the concept of stock photography. The meme, entitled, “Your City on Socialism,” displays three images depicting the damage done to a society as a result of socialism, while one image depicts politicians as the real winners in a socialist economy.
Social media giant Facebook will soon give the site’s third-party fact-checkers access to Instagram to flag allegedly misleading posts and photos on the app.
The EU has set up its own “fact checking” service in order to combat the spread of so-called “fake news” ahead of May’s European elections.
The journalists who were hired as “fact-checkers” for Facebook have reportedly “lost trust” in the company, claiming the role is closer to being Facebook’s “propaganda” arm than actual fact-checkers.
The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), a liberal think tank, endorsed President Donald Trump’s criticism of that country’s new land reform policy on Thursday, saying that the U.S. president had exposed the “damage” the policy was doing.
Breitbart News received an exclusive preview of former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s new book The Briefing: Politics, The Press, and The President, published by Regnery on July 24. In the book Spicer provides a behind-the-scenes look at his tenure
Trump, more than any president in recent memory, follows through on his promises. He has that rare credibility that comes with keeping his word.
The Virginia congressman asked Zuckerberg to clarify Facebook’s definition of “misinformation.”
California State Senator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) has proposed a bill, the “Online False Information Act,” that would require anyone who posts news on the Internet to verify their information through “fact-checkers.”
The MRC will monitor PolitiFact.com, FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, Washington Post Fact Checker, AP Fact Check and CNN Fact Check.
To those who believe the Second Amendment will save us from gun confiscation, I give you the District of Columbia v. Heller, where the right to own a handgun was barely recognized in the Supreme Court by a 5-4 decision.
Google’s fact-check feature appeared to almost exclusively target conservative news sites, fuelling concerns about bias at the company.
Surprising absolutely no-one, Google’s new “fact-checking” feature appears to exclusively target conservative news sites.
For all the fact-checking, the truth that matters to voters is whether their leaders keep faith with the electorate. By that measure, Trump is setting the example — so far.
The Swedish government announced it will be granting four mainstream media outlets 13.5 million krona (£1.2 million) to combat so-called “fake news” ahead of next year’s national election.
Journalists in Britain will be the first to use ‘fact-checking’ software funded by globalist billionaire George Soros, whose creators liken the project to an “immune system” against fake news.
UK fact-checking group Full Fact has been given a large cash injection by the Open Society Foundations, and Omidyar Network to produce two new tools to counter what it calls “misinformation”.
The left blamed Facebook for allowing users to share “fake news” — or merely news unfavorable to Hillary Clinton. Now, Facebook is moving to rehabilitate its image by launching “The Facebook Journalism Project.”
European Union (EU) nations must set up a network of public agencies to remove ‘fake news’ from circulation and impose fines, Italy’s antitrust chief has said.
Snopes, which will now have the power to declare what news is or is not legitimate on the world’s largest online platform, almost exclusively employs leftists.
With Facebook’s announcement that they plan to deploy fact checkers to monitor their pages and determine what news is real and what news is fake, Cathy Young at The Hill asks the important question: “Who will watch the watchmen?”
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior Editor Peter Schweizer said Facebook’s decision to regulate “fake news” is a “huge problem.”
Facebook has announced it will introduce warning labels on stories they deem to be “fake news,” with the help of partisan “fact checking” organisations such as Snopes and PolitiFact.
The Clinton defense in the Uranium One deal rests entirely on us taking their word for the fact that there is nothing to see. But of course, that is what they said about the email server. And we now know how widely they lied about that scandal. The fact that the news media is playing lap dog and not watch dog in this case does enormous damage to the integrity of our government.
