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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

What does the "Partisan Selective Sharing" study say about PolitiFact?

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A recent study called " Partisan Selective Sharing " (hereafter PSS ) noted that Twitter users were more likely to share fact chec...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

What if we lived in a world where PolitiFact applied to itself the standards it applies to others?

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In that impossible world where PolitiFact applied its own standards to itself, PolitiFact would doubtless crack down on PolitiFact's mis...
Friday, May 19, 2017

What "Checking How Fact Checkers Check" says about PolitiFact

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A study by doctoral student Chloe Lim (Political Science) of Stanford University gained some attention this week, inspiring some unflatteri...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

PolitiFact and robots.txt (updated)

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We were surprised earlier this week when our attempt to archive a PolitiFact fact check at the Internet Archive failed. Saving a page...
Friday, April 7, 2017

PolitiFact fixes fact check on Syrian chemical weapons

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When news reports recently appeared suggesting the Syrian government used chemical weapons, it presented a problem for PolitiFact. As noted ...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Angie Drobnic Holan: "Find news organizations that have a demonstrated commitment to the ethical principles of truthfulness, fairness, independence and transparency."

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PolitiFact, thy name is Hypocrisy. The editors of PolitiFact Bias often find themselves overawed by the sanctimonious pronouncements we se...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Hewitt v. PolitiFact: Two facts clearly favor Hewitt

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Over the past week, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt claimed on Sunday the health insurance industry has entered a "death spiral,...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Hugh Hewitt v. PolitiFact (Power Line Blog)

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Via Power Line blog, the liberal bloggers at PolitiFact tangle with conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt: The issue: During a televisi...