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Friday, November 11, 2022

Glenn Youngkin and PolitiPedant Virginia

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PolitiFact's penchant for pedantry justly earns it the derisive nickname "PolitiPedant." Ready for another example? Let's...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Narrative-shepherding instead of fact-checking for America as stolen land

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One has to hand it to PolitiFact's Yacob Reyes. Earlier this year, Reyes turned a mostly unoccupied barrier island into the whole of Lee...

Research note: PolitiFact's 'Pants on Fire' bias through October 2022

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We continue to update our research project examining PolitiFact's bias in applying its "Pants on Fire" rating. The project not...
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Thursday, September 22, 2022

PolitiSpin: Biden says he cut the debt by $1.5 trillion? Half True!

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We kiddeth not when we call PolitiFact a collection of liberal bloggers posing as non-partisan fact checkers. U.S. debt hasn't gone down...
Friday, September 9, 2022

PolitiFact vs Your Lyin' Eyes on the immigration invasion

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On Sept. 6, 2022 PolitiFact published an item titled " A surprising number of Americans believe these false claims about immigrants. He...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Stanley Kurtz/National Review: "PolitiFact’s Failed Attack on DeSantis, over Civics Education"

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With less time to devote to this website, we don't often highlight outside work. But that was actually our aim when we started out! This...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

PolitiFact: How can we rig this abortion fact check to help President Biden? Part III

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We thought we were done with the series examining PolitiFact's efforts to help President Joe Biden on an abortion claim . Then we saw th...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

PolitiFact: How can we rig this abortion fact check to help President Biden? Part II

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Lo and behold, PolitiFact made changes to the fact check we critiqued in our previous post . Recall that we lodged three main criticisms of ...