We just finished updating one of our "Nothing To See Here" posts after PolitiFact Texas revisited a speech by Senator John Cornyn's Democratic challenger, David Alameel.
PolitiFact Texas picked on a fairly innocuous statement from Alameel's speech in late June. We found other statements in the speech we thought were more politically significant. In our update we review the timeline of the reporting. We think it's reasonable to suspect that our post helped prompt this new fact check of Alameel by PolitiFact Texas.
This example featuring Alameel shows again how story selection may easily skew the "report cards" PolitiFact publishes to help serve as voter guides.
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