Fact-checking fact-checkers

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.

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…

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…

The CEO of disgruntled leftist fact-checker Snopes — yeah, the same website that got raked over the coals for fact-checking satire site The Babylon Bee — had the chutzpah to excuse away the truth-gatekeeping industry’s notorious, censorial treatment of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement about the supposed return of unfettered free speech on his platforms was cynically reported in the lead story slot on Wednesday by New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac and Theodore Schleifer, who covers “billionaires” (though perhaps not leftist billionaire George Soros, given that criticism of him is posed as anti-Semitic).

After Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company will be dumping its partnership with fact-checking companies in favor of a X-like community notes-style method of combating misinformation, PolitiFact tried to fearmonger about such a move. Unfortunately for writer …

It is a common retort among those who argue in favor of an “independent” fact-checking industry that Republicans and conservatives are fact-checked more because they lie more. However, anyone who reads beyond the headlines will soon see this is nonsense. Over the past year, the fact-checkers have come out with some “fact” checks that are themselves factually challenged. Here are the worst ten…

PolitiFact co-founder Bill Adair is still doing liberal-media interviews for his book on why Republicans lie more. He admitted to a public-radio host that the "Truth-O-Meter" is an imprecise, subjective measurement. Everything about the "independent fact-checkers" is loaded with partisan opinion.

It is odd that a website that fancies itself as a fact-checking organization would believe that if you repeat a falsehood enough times it eventually becomes true, but that is what PolitiFact is doing with Democrats and transgender sports. In a Thursday article, PolitiFact defended Montana Sen. Jon Tester’s vote that failed to protect the competitive integrity of women’s sports by claiming such…

Republicans clearly believe that transgender-related liberal culture war nonsense is a winning issue for them, which means that PolitiFact views it as their job to defend Democrats from the true attacks on their record. On Tuesday, PolitiFact was it again, rating Nevada Republican Senate challenger Sam Brown “false” for correctly stating Sen. Jacky Rosen supports allowing men to compete in…