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The website PolitiFact is weighing in on claims in the plastics-climate change debate, declaring public statements from the plastics industry "half true."

The website PolitiFact is weighing in on claims in the plastics-climate change debate, declaring public statements from the plastics industry "half true."

PolitiFact, owned by the Poynter Institute, has a tendency to defend Democrats rather than rigorously fact-check them.

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." The subhead of the piece was "RNC tweets distortion of what Biden said to teachers about kids in their classrooms."

Many turn to drug companies for insulin, which is why Senator Tammy Baldwin's claim caught the attention of PolitiFact Wisconsin.

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." The subhead of the piece was "RNC tweets distortion of what Biden said to teachers about kids in their classrooms."

On the cusp of her confirmation vote let’s look over how the fact-checkers rigged the coverage of Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The relative level of the state pension in the UK compared to the rest of the world has been regularly used as a criticism of the UK Government.

Boris Johnson’s press conference on 4 January updated the public on the UK Government’s response to the Omicron variant of Covid-19, and he made a series of comments encouraging people to get a booster vaccination in other countries.

Some migrants are being tested for COVID at Southern border, but only if they’re sick