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Sunday, April 28, 2019
Great Moments in PolitiFact History I
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PolitiFact published an impeachment PolitiSplainer on April 26, 2019 and pushed it on Twitter and Facebook. PolitiFact emphasized that th...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Bernie Sanders + PolitiFact + Equivocation = "True"
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When PolitiFact plucks a truth from a bed of untruth (or vice-versa) we call it "Tweezers" and tag the example with the "twee...
Monday, April 15, 2019
PolitiFact Bias fails to win a Pulitzer Prize for its Eighth Straight Year
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Sad news: PolitiFact Bias failed to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2019. That makes eight years in a row PolitiFact Bias has failed to win a Pulitz...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
PolitiFact: 'Tweets' is to blame!
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As if we needed a new reason to condemn the utility of PolitiFact's "report card" featurettes. PolitiFact, once a candidate...
Thursday, April 4, 2019
The Worst of PolitiFact's April 2, 2019 Reddit AMA
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As we mentioned in a Feb. 2, 2019 post, we love it when PolitiFact folks do interviews. It's a near guarantee of generating material wor...
Friday, March 15, 2019
Remember Back When PolitiFact was Fair & Balanced?
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PolitiFact has leaned left from the outset (2007). It's not uncommon to see people lament PolitiFact's left-leaning bias along wit...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Gender Pay Gap Shenanigans from PolitiFact Virginia
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PolitiFact has a long history of botching gender wage gap stories , often horrifically. PolitiFact Virginia's March 13, 2019 treatment...
Monday, March 4, 2019
The underlying point saves the day for Bernie Sanders falsehood?
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For some reason there are people who believe that if a fact checker checks both sides that means that the fact checker is neutral. We'...
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