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A Facebook post warning about the dangers of the drug fentanyl makes a credible case about the danger it poses but overstates a key statistic.

Andrew Kerr at the Daily Caller reported that PolitiFact posted an Editor's Note on May 17 quietly retracting a "Pants On Fire" it gave to Tucker Carlson last September for a supposedly "

PolitiFact insists that they are nonpartisan fact checkers. “The PolitiFact agenda is – don’t take sides with any politician or party,” claimed editor Angie Drobnic Holan. “We’re independent and [...]

Font Size PolitiFact insists that they are nonpartisan fact checkers. “The PolitiFact agenda is – don’t take sides with any politician or party,” claimed editor Angie Drobnic Holan. “We’re independent and we work hard to find the truth. So we follow the facts wherever they take us, regardless of who made the claim.” That claim is not factual. A new study by the Media Research Center finds that four years ago, PolitiFact offered 52 fact checks with a “Truth-O-Meter�...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky A new study found that one prominent fact-checker is giving President Joe Biden more leeway with misleading statements than former President Donald Trump was afforded. The Media Research Center (MRC) found that the fact-checker has offered minimal accountability for the Biden administration. Though they claim to not side with “any politician or party,” their work says otherwise.  “A new study by the Media Research Center finds that four years a...

Fact-checking Biden’s address to Congress | PolitiFact For the most part, Biden’s statements about his progress and future plans traced to estimates from think tanks or government data.     Published 5 hours ago Updated 2 minutes ago In his first speech before Congress, President Joe Biden argued it was time to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a historic opportunity to expand government for the benefit of a wider range of Americans, urging investments in jobs, climate change...

Tom, I do. Heres the spreadsheet we used. Let me know if you have any questions. If you agree with this, wed love to to get a positive fact-check from you guys! Sincerely, Ed Molchany, Media Research Center Heres the spreadsheet he sent:    So what happened? Nothing! Kertscher and PolitiFact never posted a ruling that the MRC chart was acceptably truthful. It might have helped PolitiFact  to show good faith after this exchange of facts. I contacted Kertscher for comment, and Kertscher sa...

Sen. Jennifer Boysko (far right) at a January 2020 event. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Speaker: Jennifer Boysko Statement: “The United States is the only industrialized, modernized country that does not already have a paid family medical leave program in place.” Date: Jan. 18 Setting: Senate committee hearing Sweeping legislation that would have established a paid family leave program for Virginia employees was recently killed in the state Senate. The bill, introduced by Sen. Jennifer...

June 13, 2019But one popular suspect going into 2020 was technological: deepfakes. Originally invented for porn, deepfakes are like Photoshop for videos, letting one person’s face be realistically applied to another’s body or making it appear that someone is saying words they’ve never uttered. The fear was that a deepfake could convincingly make candidates seem to say outrageous things that would poison voters’ opinion of them. (Imagine Joe Biden “saying” that half of white people�...

Book lost years ago brings strangers together across the miles The book, which had a treasured bookmark insdie, was left on a plane four years ago. The owner was sure shed never see it again. Author: Emily Longnecker Updated: 11:52 AM EST December 24, 2020 INDIANAPOLIS — Fate — or maybe something bigger — connected total strangers recently. It all happened because of a book.  To be more precise, it happened because of what was tucked between the pages of a...