PolitiFact Warps Reality About Left-Wing Activist Inciting Capitol Riot
…post said he was the lone ringleader. PolitiFact’s Antifa Deceptions PolitiFact also goes to great lengths to distance Sullivan from antifa. This enables PolitiFact to salvage an article that it…
Read morePolitiFact and Facebook Spread Gravely Dangerous Falsehood About the Covid-19 Survival Rate
…well aware of the CDC figures above because the target of its so-called fact check explicitly quotes them, and PolitiFact links to the CDC’s document that contains them. However, PolitiFact…
Read morePolitiFact’s Deceptive Report on Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…ISIS to come to power. In all of these cases, PolitiFact’s misinformation served a left-leaning narrative. In most of these cases, Just Facts notified PolitiFact of the errors, but PolitiFact…
Read moreFalse Arguments Against Evidence of Vote Fraud
…points of non-citizens stated they were registered to vote. In short, these polls support one another. PolitiFact’s point also rings with hypocrisy, because PolitiFact repeatedly cites an article in the…
Read moreFact Checkers Cover for Democratic Party’s Sordid History With the Ku Klux Klan
…the Klan. today’s Democrats “politicize acts of violence.” Conversely, “fact checkers” like PolitiFact and the Associated Press have repeatedly argued that the Democratic Party did not found the Klan, played…
Read moreSubstantial Numbers of Non-Citizens Vote Illegally in U.S. Elections
…in the Post, and the Fact Checker linked to their article. PolitiFact, another popular fact checking organization, also published a misleading analysis of this issue. This pertains to the number…
Read moreJudge Commits Fraud to Accuse Trump of Fraud
…$18 million. A Palm Beach property appraiser did.” The glaring flaw of PolitiFact’s claim is that the appraiser didn’t actually assess the market value of Mar-a-Lago, as Engoron alleged. PolitiFact’s…
Read moreYes, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are Planning to Legalize Abortion Up To Birth
…Washington Post Fact Checker Trump “mischaracterizes the Democratic Party’s stance on abortion and Biden’s position.” – Unnamed staff at PolitiFact “Biden has not explicitly expressed support for late-term abortions.” –…
Read moreIllegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes
…pay federal income tax.” PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact check organization, investigated Clinton’s claim and reported: “While there is no official figure, experts estimate that about half of all undocumented…
Read moreThere’s No Objective Evidence the Federal “Assault Weapons” Ban Saved Lives
…no basis in reality. However, a PolitiFact article by Jon Greenberg alleges it is “mostly true.” PolitiFact attempts to support this claim by citing a paper published in 2019 by…
Read moreDonald Trump and the Media Agree on Middle-Class Income, and They are Both Wrong
…2000.” Many “fact checkers” of Trump’s speech declared this statement to be true, including those of the New York Times, PolitiFact, Vox, and NPR. In reality, the data cited by…
Read moreMedia Bias Fact Check: Incompetent or Dishonest?
…evidence of its untrustworthiness, Media Bias Fact Check has declared that PolitiFact “is the gold standard for political fact checking.” To the contrary, Just Facts has documented that PolitiFact has…
Read moreBeware of the “Fact Checkers”
…sex assault cases, and no competent, honest journalist could twist his words in the manner that Snopes did. PolitiFact Let’s examine another enlightening example. In the final presidential debate between…
Read moreUSA Today & Facebook Use Slanderous “Fact Check” to Suppress Facts About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens
…well as other academic sources. Snopes and PolitiFact previously made the same false argument, and for this reason, Just Facts’ study provides a warning about this “mathematically illiterate” claim and…
Read moreThe Impact of Obamacare and Ryancare on Medicare
…Medicare is highly dependent upon general revenues not financed by Medicare taxes. In 2010, for example, 39% of Medicare funding came from general revenues. Conversely, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org are claiming…
Read moreWarren Buffett’s Fraudulent Tax Claims
…Buffett’s rhetoric remotely plausible. Buffett is not the only person to use these deceptive accounting methods. The Obama campaign, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich have all…
Read moreThink Progress Exaggerates Child Hunger by 8,000%
…misinformed public Pyke is not the only purveyor of inflated hunger statistics. PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact check organization, has alleged that 24.3% of children in Texas were “in hunger”…
Read moreThe Tax Rates of Wall Streeters and Steelworkers
…of those who have done this includes the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, the New York Times, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, CBS, and Agence France-Presse. As a result…
Read moreTax Fairness Question at GOP Debate Rooted in Falsehood Spread by Media
…the New York Times, CBS News, Agence France-Presse, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org. Newspapers have also given the platform of their op-ed pages for others to spread these untruths, including Warren Buffett,…
Read moreClinton and Obama’s Brazen Lie About the Iraq Withdrawal
…has made the same claim, and many media outlets have published stories saying he is correct, such as the Washington Post, Salon, FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact, the last two of which…
Read more2017: The Year in Facts and Falsehoods
…and NPR to Donald Trump and PolitiFact, but they are based on incomplete measures of income. The truth is that inflation-adjusted median household income increased by $17,800 or by 29%…
Read moreMedia Misinformation About Arming Teachers
…article entitled “How Do We Prevent School Shootings?” PolitiFact writes: “But two of the deadliest school shootings—Columbine and Virginia Tech—occurred despite the presence of armed police. Columbine had an armed…
Read moreIllegal Immigrants Are Far More Likely to Commit Serious Crimes Than the U.S. Public
…Core math standards require students to “distinguish between correlation and causation.” Yet, Rumbaut and two other PhDs authored this flawed study, and the AP and PolitiFact uncritically quoted it. The…
Read moreSupport for “Soaking the Rich” Is Rooted in Media Misinformation
…includes the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, CBS News, and Agence France-Presse. Comprehensive, accurate tax rates must account for all…
Read moreTrump Indicted for Citing Data From Ph.D.-Vetted Study to Challenge Election Fraud
…clearly.” Likewise, Snopes, PolitiFact, and the Huffington Post attempted to refute a 2017 study by Just Facts that used a similar methodology to estimate non-citizen votes in the 2008 presidential…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
Virtually every major media outlet and so-called fact checkers like Snopes and PolitiFact cited a dashboard called “Hamilton 68” as evidence that Russian actors were trying to influence Americans on…
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…till the next election.” In spite of these facts, PolitiFact claimed “there’s no proof” Sullivan incited rioting at the U.S. Capitol, and Facebook used that so-called “fact check” to justify…
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…them pay federal income taxes. Instead, they generally file these returns to obtain refundable child tax credits, which are a form of cash welfare. Hillary Clinton and PolitiFact have claimed…
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