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PolitiFake: Fact-Checker Cries ‘False’ that Biden White House Redefined ‘Recession’
NewsBusters ^ | 7/29/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 07/29/2022 9:42:48 AM PDT by JV3MRC

Facebook fact-checker PolitiFact played the role of the village idiot by fact-checking an Instagram post that dared to slam the Biden White House for redefining the word “recession.”

PolitiFact ran one of its so-called “fact-checks” July 27 with a headline that blared: “No, the White House didn’t change the definition of ‘recession.’” PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson chose to attack an Instagram post that used Siri to define the meaning of a recession. “The White House is now trying to protect Joe Biden by changing the definition of the word recession,” said Dear America podcast host Graham Allen. Allen then asked Siri, which defined recession as a “period of temporary economic decline” that is “generally identified by a fall in GDP in two consecutive quarters.” But Jacobson, in all his wisdom, accused Siri of having just “plucked” the definition from an “online dictionary." “This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed,” Jacobson squealed.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; joebiden; politifact; recession

1 posted on 07/29/2022 9:42:48 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Please make it stop.


2 posted on 07/29/2022 9:46:29 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: JV3MRC
Facebook DISINFORMATION-SUPPORTER PolitiFact played the role of the village idiot

As usual...

‘False’ that Biden White House Redefined ‘Recession’

Why false? Biden/Obama and the Left are redefining everything else including what and man and a woman are.

These times are truly stranger than fiction.


3 posted on 07/29/2022 9:49:16 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: JV3MRC

They need a “panties on fire” warning that is placed over this statement.


4 posted on 07/29/2022 9:49:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: JV3MRC
Meanwhile...

Wikipedia (suddenly) changes definition of Recession… Then locks the page…

5 posted on 07/29/2022 9:53:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: JV3MRC

Dear Leader is above reproach. Always.


6 posted on 07/29/2022 9:54:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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To: JV3MRC

Most of these so called Fart Checkers are America-hating foreigners wanting to get involved in American politics. I just blow that scum off. Everybody else should. Who died and put those ***holes in charge?


7 posted on 07/29/2022 9:56:38 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: JV3MRC
When I was getting my accounting degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in the late 1960's - early 1970's, a recession was defined as 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth. It was stated in the same matter of fact tone as, "The sun rises in the east and sets in the west."

Of course, that was back when things were stated simply, nobody would believe that Lia Thomas is a girl, and other basic rules of life. Things have changed since then.

8 posted on 07/29/2022 9:59:50 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Jim W N

politifact are the village idiot’s thicker brother=-


9 posted on 07/29/2022 10:00:56 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: JV3MRC

Fact-Checker = ‘Dis-information’ Board


10 posted on 07/29/2022 10:00:58 AM PDT by VinnieCCT
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To: JV3MRC

It is not a recession. Joe Biden

Depends what the meaning of ‘is’ is. ROFLOL.
Never ends with these people

For the rest of us, feeling it, it’s a recession with inflation.


11 posted on 07/29/2022 10:10:02 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Bernard

When I was getting my accounting degree there was a joke circulating about the cost of various brains for a brain transplant. The proposed recipient was told a lawyer’s brain was $5,000; an accountants brain was $10,000 and an economists brain was $100,000. Wow! Why so much for the economists brain? The recipient asked. Because it’s never been used was the reply.


12 posted on 07/29/2022 10:10:24 AM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: JV3MRC
They forgot to switch this one
13 posted on 07/29/2022 10:30:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: JV3MRC

Biden didn’t redefine the definition of recession, he merely
Progressivly Evolved ( tm)
it.

/spit


14 posted on 07/29/2022 10:55:11 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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They’re playing word games. “The WHITE HOUSE didn’t change the definition” (Because the white house doesn’t state what the definition is. That’s up to someone else. Wikipedia changed it, the dictionaries changed it etc. So, THE WHITE HOUSE didn’t change it.

It’s all BS word games.


15 posted on 07/29/2022 11:18:22 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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