Analysis: Fact Checkers Fail to React to New Facts on Hunter Biden Emails

NewsBusters ^ | 3/28/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

So-called fact-checkers should be eating crow following authentication of the emails from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by The New York Times. But a new analysis shows they’re being as brazen as ever by not updating old articles challenging the credibility of the story.

Leftist fact-checkers like FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and Lead Stories published stories within the past two years that tried to take down the New York Post bombshell. The outlets did this by either referring to the story as coming from “questionable sources;” labeling the emails as “unverified” or outright doubting their authenticity. The Times reported that emails from a cache discovered on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop in Delaware “were authenticated by people familiar with them” and tied the documents to an ongoing federal investigation. It has been 12 days since The Times released its report on the Biden laptop, and FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and LeadStories still haven't updated certain articles on the matter. All three outlets are fact-checking partners with liberal Big Tech giant Meta, which is the parent company of both Facebook and Instagram.

[SmokingJoe]

They are not “fact checkers”.
They are Soros/Zuckerberg paid Dem Party propagandists.

[Tupelo]

And some here on Free Republic wonder why, I trust Tass or Russia Today more than any of the American media.

Actually, I really trust Sky News/Australia more than any other.

[Navy Patriot]

Analysis: Fact Checkers Fail to React to New Facts on Hunter Biden Emails

I recommend that, this Holiday Season, we decorate Trees with "Fact Checker" Ornaments!

[Buttons12]

When power (or, if you please, power endorsement) passes from Biden to some other figure (or figurehead), we’ll all get the green light to expose Biden.
It may have to wait for a clean articulate storybook character to enter the Democrat primaries. Which would be tough because the party is now like an Africanized bee colony, and an electable moderate would have little chance of surviving.
A Republican majority Congress isn’t going to throw stones at Biden corruption; they don’t have any. A Republican administration in 2025 might sufficiently embitter the media to turn on Biden. Somehow we have to survive that long. :(
In other words, it’ll be when hell freezes over.

[Joe Boucher]

Sky News/Australia is great.
Not afraid to call dementia Joe the idiot he is.

[libertylover]

following authentication of the emails from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by The New York Times.

Sorry Vazquez, but the New York Times is not the good guy in this story. They sat on the story for a year and a half, then finally acknowledged the truth with a story on page 18 (or something). The "fact checkers" only take their lead from the New York Times.

Sad to say, but in "journalism", it ain't a scandal until the New York Times says it's a scandal.

See Tagline for any questions.

[bobbo666]

“Fact checkers” are not and never have been about facts or truth.

Like the 3rd party outfit that Fauci used to fund gain of function in Wuhan, FC’s are used to publish opinions that the platform/MSM push. This was the defense in court against Stoller’s defamation suit — and they won. The court ruled that expressing opinion is allowed (even if insulting) and there is no law that says FC’s must be truthful.

Just another example of the commie trash corrupting language to fool you: “Oh, you thought that my using the word ‘fact’ meant I was gonna tell the truth? Silly you.”