Actor Rob Reiner was fact checked by “Community Notes” on X, formerly known as Twitter, after he falsely claimed Tarrio had “violently stormed” the U.S. Capitol on January 6, when the fact is that the Proud Boys leader wasn’t in Washington, D.C. that day.
The BBC announced on Monday the formation of a new disinformation unit in its newsroom to counter alleged conspiracy theories and fake news.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Friday, conservative radio host and best-selling author Michael Savage responded to alleged attempts by NewsGuard — a company that claims to track online “misinformation” — to directly pressure his ad agency to drop his podcast.
Fact-checkers at AFP took the time to “debunk” obvious jokes suggesting the Queen had revealed she had information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton before her death.
Pope Francis praised Catholic communicators in the Vatican Friday for their efforts at unmasking “fake news and partial or misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines.”
Corporate and political elites use “fact-checker” organizations such as NewsGuard to undermine dissident news media outlets, explained Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit in a conversation about digital censorship streamed on Tuesday.
Self-censorship to evade “cancel culture” amounts to “doing the tyrant’s work for him,” Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee, said.
Sharyl Atkisson of RealClearInvestigations published an analysis Tuesday of fact-checking authorities that are used to control content on social media platforms and found that many of them lean left, reinforcing an anti-conservative bias.
Facebook’s nine official fact-checking partners, including such allegedly prestigious outlets as the Associated Press and Reuters, collectively failed to conduct a single fact check on an erroneous post from the Huffington Post, which repeated the misleading claim that President Donald Trump has a “stake” in a hydroxychloroquine drugmaker. As explained by Breitbart News economy editor John Carney, Trump’s family trust has a small investment in a mutual fund that owns shares of drugmaker Sanofi. How small of an investment? $1,485 at the maximum, but possibly as low as $99.10.
Facebook-owned Instagram is “fact-checking” satirical posts and memes on the platform via its third-party fact-checkers, and filtering them from hashtag and “explore” results.
Facebook is making major changes to its embattled fact-checking program by exempting opinion and satirical content, as well as allowing content creators to appeal rulings directly to the company, according to a new report.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign hit back against the Washington Post, demanding the outlet tract its “inaccurate” fact check on Sanders’ claim that “500,000 Americans will go bankrupt this year from medical bills.”
From the Reagan years to today, conservatives have been dismissed by the elites as ignorant chumps. Thirty years after Dukakis lost 40 states, nothing’s changed, and it’s precisely this long-standing ideological arrogance – that conservatives are both intellectually challenged and the most resistant to what “objective” journalists define as reality – that informs the “fact checkers.”
David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the so-called “fact-checking” website Snopes, has been entangled in a legal battle with his former business associates, who claim that he has embezzled the company’s funds, among other allegations. Meanwhile, Snopes is reportedly understaffed and finding that “fact-checking” has been getting more difficult.
CNN’s John Avlon lied repeatedly to viewers about President Donald Trump’s views on white nationalism in a “reality check” segment on Monday morning.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s misleading tweet on the subject had earned a combined total of likes and retweets in excess of 50,000.
The Washington Post has declared that President Donald Trump is “wrong” because Obama only added a fence to a wall.
Social media website Facebook will soon begin fact-checking photos and videos as well as news articles, according to a recent report.
They’re not the “enemy” when they present facts. But like Ibsen’s hero, they become the opposition when they presume “facts” entitle them to rule.
Google searches about the claim that the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists includes a Washington Post fact check rating of “Two Pinocchios,” despite the New York Times recently issuing the “correction of the year” admitting that the PA does indeed pay terrorists — leading to fresh concerns about the quality of fact-checking by the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.
Facebook decided to ditch its “fake news” warnings on articles after the warnings prompted even more users to share the flagged stories, however, the platform has created new features to crack down on what it deems to be “fake news.”
One of Italy’s largest mainstream newspapers has sacked a veteran journalist for daring to write that most of what is found in the papers today is fake news, because they “care nothing for the truth.”
Social media giant Facebook recently announced that they plan to “fact-check” photos and videos on their platform.
For all the fact-checking, the truth that matters to voters is whether their leaders keep faith with the electorate. By that measure, Trump is setting the example — so far.
Every now and then I write a piece that makes the Greenies’ heads explode. This was one of them – ‘Global Warming’ Is A Myth Say 58 Scientific Papers In 2017 – and I can quite understand why.
A new study on the recent fact-checking trend to separate “fake news” from real reporting found that in the majority of cases, the fact-checkers are just as subject to bias as the news they evaluate.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which is helping Facebook determine whether certain news stories are “disputed,” recently partnered with the State Department to host a training workshop for reporters.
Politifact, which purports to be a fact-checking website, gave Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a “mostly false” rating for claiming that his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, wants “open borders” — even though she said she did.
CNN and NBC both attempted to “fact check” claims made during the second presidential debate about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, particularly Donald Trump’s claims that she tried to “acid wash” 33,000 emails on her secret private server. And both networks did their best to cover up for Clinton — laughably so.
Only 29 percent of likely American voters “trust media fact-checking of candidates’ comments,” according to a late September survey from Rasmussen Reports, while a prior poll indicated presidential debate moderators would help Clinton over Trump.
NBC News’ Lester Holt had his “Candy Crowley” moment at the first debate of the 2016 presidential election on Monday night, bowing to pressure from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the liberal media by “fact-checking” Republican nominee Donald Trump on the question of his support for the Iraq War.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Los Angeles Times’ Melanie Mason reports that immigration statistics cited by Donald Trump during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention were “basically right,” even if immigration is “flat overall.”
CNN cut away from speakers who spoke out against illegal immigration at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday night, turning instead to its daily stable of talking heads, and coming back for a conventional politician’s speech.
Because Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina dared Wednesday night to be a woman who attacked the mainstream media’s holy temple of abortion, the lying fact-checkers came out in force before the CNN debate was even over to punish her for
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather has endorsed the accuracy of Truth, a film which tells the story of his own downfall in what has come to be known as Rathergate.
In part two of our three-part interview, and with our encouragement, The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple did most of the interviewing. Along with the recent uproars over Tucker Carlson, Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly, we discussed the media’s handling of
The exact number of agents working for the IRS is not relevant to either the joke Cruz was making, or the serious and legitimate point underlying it: the same government that pronounces itself utterly helpless to keep track of immigration scofflaws, or secure the border, is very aggressive about keeping tabs on law-abiding taxpayers.
Breitbart News analyzed the Washington Post fact check column for all of 2015 and found that so far this year Republicans and their claims have been targeted twice as often as Democrats and their claims. A good faith search revealed
Serial embellisher and current Secretary of State John Kerry got the full boat of four Pinnochios from a brutal Washington Post fact check that compares the failed Democrat presidential contender to disgraced NBC News anchor Brian Williams. Earlier this week,
Glenn Kessler did not author a somewhat bizarre fact check that appeared in the Washington Post Tuesday. That came courtesy of Michelle Ye Hee Lee, who criticized Republican Senator Ted Cruz over his claim that the American tax code has
