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.
Politifact released analysis that whitewashed Sen. Jon Tester’s gun control plan, especially his support of universal background checks.
An Oct. 6 Politifact “fact check ” inadvertently highlighted the fact that all Democratic Senators are backing a bill which would invite more migrants to come across the Mexican border.
The far-left PolitiFact called out Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) Monday for taking Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh completely out of context in a tweet.
Brookings Institution research confirms that the San Francisco Bay Area has the highest income inequality levels in the United States.
The establishment media have closed 2017 by proving President Trump 100 percent correct about their massive fake news problem.
PolitiFact is assisting Democrat Doug Jones in his attempt to walk back his support for abortion until birth by claiming he cannot possibly be an advocate for “full-term abortion” because the term is “disconnected from reality.”
The Obamacare mandate is a brutal tax that increases the deficit and almost exclusively targets the working and middle class. It must be repealed.
Journalists working for Facebook as part of the company’s fact-checking initiative claim the site’s fact-checking tools have failed and the entire operation was simply a PR campaign.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s new 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax has pushed the Golden State’s gas prices to the highest in the nation after less than a week in effect.
Politifact issued an October 25th report showing a central component to Michael Moore’s argument for repealing the Second Amendment was “mostly false.”
In a collaboration with AL.com, the so-called political fact-checking outlet Politifact deemed an ad from the Senate Leadership Fund attacking former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for not supporting the border wall to be “mostly false.”
Hillary Clinton cites a study that has been debunked by the left-leaning Politifact in her new book released Tuesday.
James Warren, Chief Media Writer for Poynter, pointed a finger Thursday morning at Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson after the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) — of which Adelson is a “prime backer” — recommended that President Donald Trump reassign his National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.
Facebook is rolling out a “related articles” section that will appear below popular stories and those that are deemed to be “fake news,” according to a report.
Travis County Sheriff “Sanctuary Sally” Hernandez joined with four other Texas sheriffs to declare that “FBI crime statistics have found that labeled ‘sanctuary’ cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides.” Fact checkers at PolitiFact, a left-of-center watchdog, said no such FBI report exists, but labeled their statements “Half-True.”
In an effort to combat “fake news,” Google has launched a new feature on their search engine titled “Fact Check” which adds a label to certain links indicating whether they have been confirmed by partisan fact-checkers Snopes and Politifact.
PolitiFact has pulled a 2014 fact-check on remarks about Syria by former Secretary of State John Kerry after the claim the Obama administration “got ‘100 percent’ of chemical weapons out of Syria” turned out to be false.
James McDaniel created a fake news website in February just for fun. In less than two weeks, UndergroundNewsReport.com had garnered more than 1 million page views and hundreds of dollars in advertising revenue.
Politifact called President Trump’s deficit reduction efforts “mostly false” — while admitting that the statistics he used to make the point were factual.
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.”
Before Facebook unveiled measures to monitor the spread of “fake news” on the platform, BuzzFeed editor Craig Silverman was working as an adjunct professor for the same media organization that created the fact-checking rules Facebook will use to flag and label fake news stories.
PolitiFact, which is part of a new grouping that will help Facebook flag “disputed” stories, last year rated as “Mostly False” a claim that the U.S. funded an election effort in Israel via the nonprofit One Voice aimed at defeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
PolitiFact rated just over 15% of Donald Trump’s campaign claims as true, while marking 51% of Hillary Clinton’s as such, according to PolitiFact Executive Director Aaron Sharockman.
PolitiFact is being considered by Facebook as one of the social network’s partners in “fact-checking” and determining fake news, but a report from 2013 pointed out that the site overwhelmingly focuses on tearing apart arguments made by Republicans, marking them as false over 25% more than Democrats.
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.
Just as they did with the claim Hillary Clinton supports open borders, Politifact ignored reality to try to discredit Donald Trump’s criticism of the Democratic nominee.
Politifact, which purports to be a fact-checking website, gave Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a “mostly false” rating for claiming that his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, wants “open borders” — even though she said she did.
Politifact misses that Hillary Clinton’s statement that Australia’s gun ban is “worth considering” came about a minute after “Australia’s a good example, Canada’s a good example, the UK is a good example” of how “stricter gun laws” were implemented following a high profile gun crime.
