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The “fact-checking” industry is a total joke.A bad joke. Worse than a 5-year-old’s knock-knock joke. As bad as a Chelsea Handler joke.Really, it is that bad.Just when you think that they couldn’t get any lower, they prove you wrong. They really exist to do nothing but buttress Establishment lies.https://t.co/NRHDSJONuy pic.twitter.com/LnJIVWeaBS— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 3, 2023Randi Weingarten, for those of you unfortunate enough not to have read my article “Randi Weingarten is an evil liar,” is the President of the American Federation of Teachers. She is, perhaps, the single biggest reason that schools in the United States remained closed for...

Everybody remembers what happened after actor Jussie Smollett claimed in January of 2019 to have been attacked in Chicago by two men shouting racial slurs and claiming “this is MAGA country.” Comedian Dave Chappelle was among those who noticed right away that “none of these details added up at all,” but politicians who really enjoy stoking the flames of racism ran with Smollett’s claim without question. President Biden and VP Harris have tweets that have aged badly and now have Twitter Community Notes attached: Biden got fact checked on Jouicy… https://t.co/aoMRszzSj1 — EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 17, 2023 Biden’s getting called...

“The story of America is a story of progress and resilience,” Biden said. “We are the only country that has emerged from every crisis stronger than when we entered it. That is what we are doing again. Two years ago our economy was reeling. As I stand here tonight, we have created a record 12 million new jobs – more jobs created in two years than any president has ever created in four years.” Since his first year in office, Biden has boasted that he created more jobs than any of his predecessors. However, the majority of the jobs he...

During his State of the Union address, Joe Biden once again blamed Vladimir Putin for inflation.“Inflation has been a global problem because a pandemic directly disrupted our supply chains and Putin’s unfair and brutal war in Ukraine disrupted energy supplies, as well as food supplies, blocking all that grain and Ukraine.”The pandemic certainly did have a negative impact on the worldwide economy, but the inflation rate in January 2021, when he took office, was a mere 1.4%, which was on par with the average inflation rate of 1.2% for all of 2020. Inflation started going up after Biden took office,...

SummaryPresident Joe Biden put his spin on some facts, particularly about the economy, in his Feb. 7 State of the Union address:* Biden boasted that the 12.1 million jobs created in his first two years were more than the number of jobs added in four years under any president. But that job growth was fueled by a post-pandemic recovery that started under his predecessor, and his comparison doesn’t account for population growth.* The president said “take-home pay has gone up,” which is true, but the rise is not as fast as inflation. “Real” weekly earnings, which are adjusted for inflation,...

Politifact is biased. All news sources are biased to some extent (I make no bones about being a conservative, although do my best to stick to the facts), although some are better about trying to be open and fair than others.Politifact? Browsing their site I have concluded that while they may think they are fair, they don’t come close.The first “fact check is a doozy, since their “Truth o Meter” and the content of their “analysis” contradict each other. They rate a claim “false” while their explanation for coming to the conclusion shows that it is, in fact, true. They...

President Biden is a self-described “gaffe machine.” That’s no excuse, of course, for a president making false or misleading statements. Readers have asked for fact checks of a variety of recent Biden statements, but none of them seemed big enough for a stand-alone fact check. So here’s a roundup of some of the president’s recent errors of fact, made as he has barnstormed the country boosting Democrats and raising contributions in advance of the midterm elections. We generally do not award Pinocchios for roundups like this — but for reasons that will become clear, we need to make an exception...

Fact-checking under President Trump was a bustling business. Seemingly every day, and sometimes by the hour, the 45th president’s every word was scrutinized, which all comes with the job. But under President Biden, fact checkers are enjoying what feels like extended vacations or have simply checked out in terms of scrutinizing the many ways that he is misleading the public. Take CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale as a prime example of apathy around holding the current president accountable. From June 2019 until November 2020, Dale appeared or was mentioned on CNN more than once per day, on average, according to Mediaite....

Facebook has deployed one of its infamous ‘fact checkers’ to suggest that the completely accurate claim that the IRS is seeking to arm more agents to use deadly force was “partly false information.”Earlier this month, an IRS job posting was uncovered that announced the agency was looking to hire people who are ready to kill.The job ad listed one of the “major duties” of IRS agents to be able to “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”The IRS subsequently deleted the job posting after it stoked controversy, but then a 2021 IRS annual report also...

Facebook sparked outrage among free speech advocates when it fact-checked a senior economist with the American Institute of Economic Research for spreading so-called misinformation. The platform flagged the economist for — get this — correctly defining the word “recession.”

The Associated Press ran a “fact check” on a meme joking about Shinzo Abe having information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton. The meme has been around for ages due to the amount of mysterious and arguably convenient deaths surrounding the Clintons. >P> Following the tragic assassination of Shinzo Abe, comedian and podcast host Michael Malice tweeted a fake screenshot of the former Japanese prime minister saying “I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.” The tweet was “liked” by over 12,000 people who understand jokes. The Associated Press was apparently very concerned...

CLAIM: On Memorial Day 2022 President Biden claimed a 9mm bullet will “blow the lung out of the body.” VERDICT: False. The 9mm round is widely popular for concealed carry because it has effective stopping/penetrating power without significant recoil. The round’s stopping power is also attractive for law enforcement, but that power does not translate into blowing organs out of the body. Breitbart News spoke to a Navy SEAL (ret.), who is a ballistics expert, and his response to Biden’s statement was, “No way.” We spoke to a federal agent with 15 years experience in the field, and his response...

The Associated Press desperately tried to defend the self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of disinformation” from her own words and ended up undercutting itself in the process. AP put out one of its so-called “fact-checks” headlined: “Old comments by disinformation board director misrepresented online.” The outlet took issue with users and outlets claiming Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) Executive Director Nina Jankowicz “said she wants verified Twitter users to be able to edit other users’ tweets” during a January 2021 video conference on “disinformation.” AP complained that such claims were “missing context.” According to the AP’s spin: “[Jankowicz] was explaining an existing program...

During a recent broadcast, I said that once Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, "Twitter will be flooded with hate, and a lot of it will come from people on the Left who want to show how hate-filled it is. It's like their race-hoax industry. If you see a noose on a college dorm of a black student, the odds are overwhelming that the noose was put there by a black student. If you see the N-word on a dormitory building, the odds are overwhelming that a black student actually did that. We're filled with race hoaxes." One of the...

Many of us were alarmed on Election Night 2020 when, while the results were looking good for Donald Trump, multiple states suddenly stopped counting votes. As the night wore on and went into the next day, it seemed that every update was favorable for Biden until he was ultimately named President-Elect.While Trump’s campaign repeatedly promised to “release the Kraken” and bring forward evidence of election fraud that would prove that the election was stolen, focusing on electronic voting machines, that evidence didn’t materialize. RedState’s Scott Hounsell pointed out various states and cities – even down to the precincts – that...

On Saturday, activist Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shared a pro-life meme that tells people their grandmothers carried part of them inside their wombs, and Facebook’s fact-checkers flagged that meme. Here’s what the meme says: This is so amazing.. Did you know that your grandmother carried part of you inside her womb? But how? Well. a female fetus is born with all the eggs she will ever have in her lifetime. So when your Grandmother was carrying your Mother in her womb. you were a tiny egg in your Mother’s ovaries, The three of you...

A film debuting in over 270 theaters across the United States this week uses a flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election nearly 18 months after it ended. Praised by former President Donald Trump as exposing “great election fraud,” the movie, called “2000 Mules,” paints an ominous picture suggesting Democrat-aligned ballot “mules” were supposedly paid to illegally collect and drop off ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But that’s based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data,...

When former President Donald Trump takes the stage in Nebraska Friday night—he’s scheduled to hold one of his well-known rallies for GOP statehouse hopeful Charles Herbster—Republicans won’t be the only ones watching. Democrats tell us they’ll be live tweeting and fact-checking stump speeches from the I-80 Speedway in Greenwood. According to Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb, “Herbster and Trump embody today’s Republican Party— liars, sexual predators, spreader of conspiracy theories and tax dodgers.” Herbster—who has banked much of his campaign, arguably all of it, on Trump’s endorsement—was recently accused of groping eight women, including the only named accuser, GOP...

The Associated Press couldn’t bring itself to outright admit that President Joe Biden falsely promised to Americans that they would save big on transitioning to green energy. Instead, AP just said he “misspoke” and “vastly overpromised.” AP hedged in its fact-check by spinning that “Biden vastly overpromised Thursday when he told Americans they can expect savings of $500 a month by transitioning to renewable energy.” AP still brazenly attempted to salvage what Biden said by trying to act as the White House public relations team: “It’s possible they might save that much over a year, not per month.” AP even...

Nope, that’s not a sarcastic headline and yes, you did read it correctly. I really did get fact-checked by FactCheck.org for a tweet I made on March 26 claiming that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stopped releasing data on vaccinated vs unvaccinated deaths and hospitalizations. Now sure, we all make mistakes, but this was a big one, especially because it happened to go viral. Therefore, I feel I owe an obligation to readers and those who follow me on social media to clarify and flesh out this issue, and it’s more complicated than you might initially think. Here’s what...