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Friday, June 22, 2018

PolitiFact Corrects, We Evaluate the Correction

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PolitiFact corrected an error in one of its fact checks this past week, most likely in response to an email we sent on June 20, 2018. Dea...
Monday, June 18, 2018

PolitiFact Wisconsin: The Future is Now!

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A May 2, 2018 fact check from PolitiFact Wisconsin uses projected numbers from the 2018-2019 budget year to assess a claim that Wisconsinit...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Different Strokes for Different Quotes: What does "voted for tax cuts" really mean?

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"What I find is it's hard for me to take critics seriously when they never say we do anything right. Sometimes we can do things ri...
Monday, June 11, 2018

PolitiFact 2016: Despite No Evidence Supporting Our Conclusion, It's "Half True" Donald Trump Doesn't Believe in Equal Pay for Equal Work

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Our part-time effort to hold PolitiFact accountable allows many problems to slip through the cracks. Sometimes our various research project...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

PolitiFact: Senior White House Officials Exist (Contrary to What Trump Said)

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Apparently PolitiFact is beyond understanding why people regard news and fact-checking skeptically. PolitiFact and The New York Times pro...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

PolitiFact rewrites the Logan Act

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We know that PolitiFact is non-partisan because it doesn't make mistakes like this. A May 22, 2018 PolitiFact article (with no ...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

PolitiFact Wisconsin and the Worry-O-Meter

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PolitiFact Wisconsin had no representation in our article on the worst 17 PolitiFact fact checks of 2017 . A May 18, 2018 fact check of Re...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Not a Lot of Reader Confusion XI

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We say that PolitiFact's graphs and charts, including its PunditFact collections of ratings for news networks, routinely mislead reade...