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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: 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 .
Our sources C This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Fact-checking claims that George Soros is ‘paying student radicals’ to protest
The executive director of Politifact, a fact checker also used by Facebook, issued a strong rebuke of Zuckerberg following Tuesday's announcement. "If Meta is upset it created a tool to censor, it ...
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.