It makes sense for a fact checker to account for figures of speech such as hyperbole. And PolitiFact plainly states in its description of it...

I remember reading a story years back about a tire company that enterprisingly tried to drum up business by sending out a team to spread roo...

On Nov. 13, 2018 PolitiFact's "PunditFact" brand issued a "Pants on Fire" rating to conservative Ken Blackwell for ...

" We call out both sides ." That is the assurance that PolitiFact gives its readers to communicate to them that it rates stateme...

Over the past week, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt claimed on Sunday the health insurance industry has entered a "death spiral,...

We tip our hats to Power Line blog for making it easy to add a "Nothing To See Here" item. With "Nothing To See Here" ...

If you're the kind of prude that can't joke about abortion, then PunditFact isn't the nonpartisan fact-checker for you. Rece...

Earlier this week we published our 2015 update to our study of PolitiFact's bias in applying its "Pants on Fire" rating. The...

Oops--are we being redundant? Sorry! Here's a portion of PunditFact's main page from Dec. 28, 2015. Partial screen capture from...

PolitiFact/PunditFact writer Lauren Carroll couldn't resist pushing back against criticism she received on her story looking at the cont...

When President Obama called ISIS ("ISIL") "contained" in a televised interview on Nov. 12, 2015, other politicians, incl...

We do "PolitiFact" stories to examine how PolitiFact's ratings correlate to percentage error. Claims where the ratings seem ba...

We've pointed out before how PolitiFact will fault statements made on Twitter for lacking context despite the 140-character limit Twitte...

Careful research over the last tens of hours has convinced us that PunditFact reports less accurately than PolitiFact. On Jan 27, 2015 , P...

Bless your heart, PunditFact. Some people think PolitiFact's network scorecards can't be taken as a reliable litmus test of networ...

We pledged to apply our "Pants on Fire" bias research methods to PolitiFact's "PunditFact" project. PunditFact is ...

We've often highlighted the apparent non-objective standards PolitiFact uses to justify its "Truth-O-Meter" ratings. John Krol...

Folk A: President Barack Obama Obama claimed border crossings are at the lowest level since the 1970s. We cannot directly check Obama...

On Nov. 6, 2014 PunditFact provided yet another example why the various iterations of PolitiFact do not deserve serious consideration as fa...

Conservative radio show host Larry Elder has an Oct. 30 criticism of PunditFact posted at Townhall.com . It's definitely worth a read, a...