Fact-checking fact-checkers

On Sunday morning, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria re-aired an April 6 primetime special with the not-so-subtle title of The War on Government, which purported to be a history lesson on the conservative movement’s frustration with Republican politicians’ unwillingness or inability to shrink the government going back to President Dwight Eisenhower, which has culminated in DOGE’s blunt-force…

If you argue that fact-checking websites like PolitiFact should not be the final arbiter of what is true because they fact-check Republicans way more than Democrats, the response you are likely to get is because they deserve it. However, a Thursday article on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer undermines that point because the article makes it clear that Schumer was wrong to blame the…

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.

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 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.

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 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…

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.

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’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.

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 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 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.

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.