Fact-checking fact-checkers
PolitiFact Shows Trump Is Right On Due Process, Still Rates Him False
PolitiFact’s relationship with Facebook might be over, but just in case Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg feels the need to change his mind one day, a Thursday article from Maria Ramirez Uribe proved why it should stay that way. Uribe rated President Trump “false” for saying “there’s a different standard” for due process for illegal immigrants despite admitting he was, in fact, correct.
WHOA: Lefty FactCheck.org Actually Defends Trump’s First Term Economy
It must be a cold day in hell apparently. Leftist fact-checker FactCheck.org actually took time to defend President Donald Trump’s first term economy from deceptive falsehoods circulating online.
PolitiFact Uses Pope Francis's Death To Defend Its Existence
PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders is still decrying Meta Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to break up with the fact-checking companies, so, on Thursday, she wrote an article using the death of Pope Francis to argue he supported their work.
Fox News: CNN's Daniel Dale Unloaded 23 On-Air Fact Checks of Trump II
NewsBusters has repeatedly noted that Dale appears on air at CNN overwhelmingly to "correct" Trump. Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn exposed that pattern again: in the first 80 days of Trump's second term, Dale made at least 23 on-air fact-checks of Trump, but only two for Biden during the same period in 2021.
Factcheck.org Mangles Science Fact-Check Of Trump's Transgender Orders
Factcheck.org may be the best of the fact-checking websites that recently saw their influence decline when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to break up with them. However, a nearly 3,000-word SciCheck essay from Catalina Jaramillo on Monday proved that is still not good enough to justify the previous partnership, as she took aim at a series of transgender-related executive orders from…
Column: Cory Booker's Blab-a-Thon Underlines 'Fact Checker' TILT
On April 7, Facebook pulled the plug on the censorship of “independent fact checkers,” replacing it with a “Community Notes” approach, like Elon Musk’s X uses. No one was more upset than the censorious left-wing “fact” police. But PolitiFact's treatment of Sen. Cory Booker's "historic" 25-hour speech on the Senate floor proves they're often in the tank for Democrats.
Chief Fact-Checker Laments Decline In Influence On Fact-Checking Day
Most people probably do not know who Angie Drobnic Holan is, but they should. Holan is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, and on April 2, or International Fact-Checking Day, she wrote an op-ed bemoaning the setbacks the industry has taken in 2025 from Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and the Trump Administration.
PolitiFact: Musk 'False' For Social Security-Ponzi Scheme Comparison
PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson slapped a “false” label on Elon Musk on Wednesday for his claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Jacobson’s big argument against Musk was not convincing, as he insisted that because Social Security is legal, it can’t be accurately described as a Ponzi scheme.
Karoline Leavitt ALREADY Passed Jen Psaki In PolitiFact 'Fact Checks'
PolitiFact, the Poynter Institute's liberal-tilting "independent fact-checking" website, has given White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt a third fact-check within her first two months at the podium -- two False ratings and one Half True. Biden's first press secretary Jen Psaki has two -- on False and one True. Leavitt will soon surpass Karine Jean-Pierre, who had four checks.
PolitiFact's Taxes, Spending Double Standard Spares Dem a False Rating
PolitiFact finally found time to fact-check a Democrat on Tuesday. Unfortunately, writer Louis Jacobson refused to give Washington Sen. Patty Murray’s false claim a false rating when she declared that, since 2001, GOP tax cuts have done more than anything else to add to the deficit, instead giving the claim a “half true rating.”
PolitiFact Rates Musk Pants-on-Fire For Biden 'Importation Scam' Claim
PolitiFact writers Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman teamed up on Friday to give Elon Musk a “pants-on-fire” rating for his claim that former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy was “a giant voter importation scam.” To reach such a conclusion, the duo engaged in plenty of hyperliteralism and bad faith arguments.
The Dispatch Completely BOTCHES Fact Check on Politico’s Gov’t Funding
Never-Trump propaganda mill The Dispatch tried to scold critics enraged over the millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on Politico subscriptions, and ended up looking completely ridiculous in the process.
PolitiFact's Experts Help It Label Trump Jr. 'False' On Fires
On Tuesday, PolitiFact showed why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was right to end the company’s partnership with its fact-checking partners. Writer Caleb McCullough gave Donald Trump Jr. a “false” rating because he ran afoul of his preferred experts while ignoring experts who may have given him another perspective. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed during an attack on Speaker Mike…
Doh! Only ONE 'Fact Checker' Checked Facts in Biden's Farewell Address
The same "independent fact-checkers" who routinely review everything out of Donald Trump's mouth and Truth Social account don't do the same for the current president. Joe Biden gave a big farewell speech this week. Which "fact checker" reviewed anything in the speech? Starting with the notion the Big Tech executives are forming an "oligarchy" with Trump? (As if Big Tech didn't oligarch it up…
