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PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials ...
Sources 16WMPO 16WMPO.com Defunct Impostor site, per PolitiFact. Likely part of the same network as WTOE 5 News. [28] [33] [34] AlexJones.xyz AlexJones.xyz Part of the same network as WTOE 5 News. [35] alynews.com alynews.com Part of a network that posted a false story that there was a sequel to the movie Step Brothers in the works in 2016.
A 2018 year-in-review and prospective on fact-checking from the Poynter Institute (which develops PolitiFact [27]) noted a proliferation of credibility score projects, including Media/Bias Fact Check, writing that "While these projects are, in theory, a good addition to the efforts combating misinformation, they have the potential to misfire ...
What does the data show? Studies have historically shown that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than U.S. citizens. No available data backs claims that there is a migrant crime wave ...
PolitiFact reached out to Nehls’ office asking for evidence and a copy of the report. "Prove him wrong," Taylor Hulsey, Nehl’s communications director responded. PolitiFact did not find any ...
Per PolitiFact. Reposted story from the Last Line of Defense. [1] [20] Astronomy-Physics.com Astronomy-Physics.com Falsely claimed that the Perseid meteor shower of 2017 would be "the brightest ... in recorded human history." [21] [22] Attitude.co.uk Attitude.co.uk Per PolitiFact. [1] Aurora-News.us Aurora-News.us Impostor site, per PolitiFact [1]
Research has shown that humans are very much prone to confirmation bias — we like to selectively look for evidence in support of already-held beliefs and anxieties — and, further, this ...
PolitiFact is a reliable source for reporting the veracity of statements made by political candidates as well as the percentage of false statements made by a political candidate (of the statements checked by PolitiFact), provided that attribution is given. 1 Polygon: 1 2: 2020