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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.
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 ...
PolitiFact: service of the Tampa Bay Times created in August 2007, uses the "Truth-o-Meter" to rank the amount of truth in public persons' statements. 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner. [ 225 ] Snopes : focuses on, but is not limited to, validating and debunking urban legends and other stories in American popular culture .
Fake news websites deliberately publish hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation to drive web traffic inflamed by social media. [8] [9] [10] These sites are distinguished from news satire as fake news articles are usually fabricated to deliberately mislead readers, either for profit or more ambiguous reasons, such as disinformation campaigns.
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]
Consequently, some judgment and comparison of sources is needed in order to identify reliable sources. Reliable sources respect truth; a source that is commonly untruthful is not reliable. A source may be partly or more or less reliable. Concurrence of possibly reliable sources may help in identifying reliable sources, and editors should seek it.