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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

PolitiFact's sample size deception

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Is the deception one of readers, of self, or of both? For years we have criticized as misleading PolitiFact's selection-bias contamina...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

PolitiFact's Magic Math on 'Medicare For All' (Updated)

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Would you believe that PolitiFact bungled an explainer article on the Democratic Party's Medicare For All proposal? PolitiFact's F...
Monday, February 18, 2019

PolitiFact California rates "clean water" claim "True," doesn't define "clean water"

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What is "clean water"? It depends on whom you ask, among a variety of different factors. In California, for example, one can use...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

PolitiFact and the 'Green New Deal' Fiction Depiction

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What if the GOP released a FAQ that gave false or misleading information about the Democrats' "Green New Deal" resolution? Wou...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

PolitiFact Editor: "Most of our fact checks are really rock solid as far as the reporting goes"

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Why do we love it when PolitiFact's principals do interviews? Because it almost always provides us with material for PolitiFact Bias. ...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Not a Lot of Reader Confusion XII

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We say that PolitiFact's graphs and charts, including its PunditFact collections of ratings for news networks, routinely mislead reade...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Not a Lot of Reader Confusion XII

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We say that PolitiFact's graphs and charts, including its PunditFact collections of ratings for news networks, routinely mislead reade...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

PolitiFact's Heart Transplant

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In the past we have mocked PolitiFact's founding editor Bill Adair for saying the "Truth-O-Meter" is the " heart of Poli...