Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

You’re fired! That’s not only a famous shout from Donald Trump’s TV celebrity days, it’s a sentence that woke Twitter employees are hearing in increasing numbers as Elon Musk takes over the platform. And The Washington Post is furious.

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Tuesday called for greater Big Tech accountability on Fox News’s America Reports as he highlighted MRC Free Speech America’s groundbreaking Google political search bias study.

The New York Times is whipping social media companies to censor so-called “misinformation” in non-English languages after supposed “[u]nsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods” circulated online before the 2020 presidential election.

Eight House Republicans on Tuesday joined their Senate counterparts in proposing legislation aimed at curbing left-wing political bias in email services’ spam filters. 

Republican lawmakers tore into Big Tech for censoring the New York Post’s October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story on Thursday after The New York Times tied files on the computer to a federal investigation.

One of the most maddening traits of the liberal-media “fact checking” sites is when they’re not checking facts. They’re trying to support Democratic projections about the future. PolitiFact did this for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. They gave him a “Mostly True” for bragging his “Safer at Home” lockdown “prevented the death of at least 300 Wisconsinites, and perhaps as many as 1,400 lives." How on…

The Washington Post “Fact Checker” has a very strange and unfactual way of reacting to Democrats telling voters and interest groups they want no restrictions on abortion. They think it’s a “lie” to say these Democrats support abortion up until birth, even when Democrats say they support no restrictions on a "woman's right to choose."

PolitiFact rarely checks the facts of Barack Obama. But when he endorsed Joe Biden for president, they found something he said "Half True." Obama said Biden "already has what is the most progressive platform of any major party nominee in history." This is an accepted political fact. Liberal newspapers and websites have repeatedly agreed that the Democrats are now to the left of Obama.  How on…

Leon Wolf of The Blaze expressed amazement that Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler would assign Donald Trump three Pinocchios….and then include a raft of examples showing what he said was true. Trump said the World Health Organization "parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission was happening." Kessler showed that was true. So why the…

PolitiFact released another tendentious defense of a controversial Democrat, in this case Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose coronavirus crackdown is lighting up the conservative blogosphere. They noted she's on Biden's short list of potential running mates, and based their whole "fact check" on one overheated headline so they could dismiss the actual controversy. 

Liberals insist the science is unsettled on hydroxychloroquine as a cure for the coronavirus. If that’s the case, then why would The Washington Post "Fact Checker" squad give President Trump “Four Pinocchios” for touting it as a hopeful possibility? There aren't enough facts for a "fact check," but if Fox News is promoting it, it must be "incorrect."

One of the most disturbing tactics of “fact checkers” is claiming they can fact-check the future. Predictions are not facts. To declare a prediction is "Wrong" is political, not factual. AP's "Fact Check" team decried Trump "making a baseless claim of surging suicides if the U.S. economy remains mostly shut." They said "There's no evidence." That's because it's in the future! But experts disagree…

Dr. Tony Fauci has become widely seen as a nonpartisan health expert during the coronavirus pandemic. But that didn’t stop Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler from throwing a harsh “Four Pinocchios” (pants on fire) verdict for a statement to NBC anchorman Lester Holt that Italy's terrible infection and death rate came because "they had an open border, they let people in."

In a review of Sunday night's Democrat debate on CNN, PolitiFact tagged Joe Biden as "Mostly False" when he claimed the Trump administration refused to accept coronavirus testing kits from the World Health Organization. Oddly, CNN's own "fact checkers" ruled that "Biden is correct."  They missed the crucial context that WHO never made an offer.