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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, child care, infrastructure and more. Biden said that taxes should be increased on corporations and...

Tom, I do. Here's the spreadsheet we used. Let me know if you have any questions. If you agree with this, we'd love to to get a positive fact-check from you guys! Sincerely, Ed Molchany, Media Research Center Here's 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 said he forwarded to PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan. There has been no comment sent back.  ...

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 Boysko (D-Fairfax) would have established a wage tax in 2024 to finance up to 12 weeks of annual pa...

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’s salaries should be garnished to fund Black Lives Matter protests. Or Donald Trump saying…well,...

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 she'd 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 book. Pat Caporali lives Indianapolis. Emily Wray lives in Boston. They met for the first time dur...