Fact Check Check™
The idea behind fact checks is to keep the media and elected officials accountable. Today, fact-checking has become a serious business for the fact-checkers. Over the last several years, fact-checking has grown into its own industry with the power to not only to sway news coverage, elections, and policy debates, but also to impact a company’s financial well-being. People want to know: Who checks the fact checkers? Welcome to Fact Check Check™.
Fact-checkers change rules to declare late-term abortion ads false
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Focus on the Family ran ads celebrating the ruling and accusing multiple states of allowing late-term abortion “even up to the moment before birth.” Fact-checkers at PolitiFact looked at the ads and declared them to be “Mostly False.” However, the facts tell a different story — and [...]
Fact-checkers call Sen. Murphy’s false claims about school shooters true
Mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, this spring captured Americans’ attention and led to calls for gun reform. A proposal that has garnered support from Democratic and Republican lawmakers has been to raise the age to purchase rifles from 18 to 21. One of the leading voices pushing for the change has [...]
PolitiFact ignores law, calls immigration claims about Sen. Kelly ‘false’
A recent ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee went after Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly on immigration and border enforcement. Included in the ad was a statement that the senator “voted … for benefits to illegals.” PolitiFact declared the ad’s claim to be “false,” but the fact-checking outlet’s ruling ignored both recent history and [...]
Fact-checking the fact-checkers
The idea behind fact checks is to keep the media and elected officials accountable. Today, fact-checking has become a serious business for the fact-checkers. Over the last several years, fact-checking has grown into its own industry with the power to not only to sway news coverage, elections, and policy debates, but also to impact a company’s [...]