PolitiFact

Special Report
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Rise of the Fact-Checking
A casual political observer may take the “fact-checker” label at face value. But the entire industry (with little exception) serves as a Trojan horse to justify censorship for the political…
by Matt Palumbo on May 29, 2024

Special Report
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Money Behind Fact-Checking
PolitiFact takes the cake as the worst of the faux fact-checkers and has rightly garnered a reputation for being the most clearly biased in favor of the Left. PolitiFact originated…
by Matt Palumbo on May 29, 2024

Special Report
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Other Major Players
Other major players currently operating include Lead Stories, which is among the most prolific fact-checkers policing content on Facebook. Its staff reveals the operation to be practically a CNN offshoot.
by Matt Palumbo on May 29, 2024

Special Report
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Pushing Censorship
In January 2018, Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s algorithm would get two changes to help boost “trusted” news outlets while suppressing their competitors. In effect, this was a Trojan horse to push…
by Matt Palumbo on May 29, 2024

Special Report
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Future of Fact-Checking
Following his acquisition of Twitter (now X), Elon Musk revamped the Twitter fact-checking system from one only ever used to benefit the Left, to one that fact-checks everyone.
by Matt Palumbo on May 29, 2024

Organization Trends
The Organizations Retraining Journalists
Partisan organizations in the United States are backing the Poynter Institute’s programs to retrain journalists in how to research and write. With the backing of the Democracy Fund, Big…
by Anthony Vendetti on April 13, 2023

Book Profile
Book Review: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
In his latest book, Matt Palumbo explains the origins and rise to power of the fact-checking industry, the major players in it, and their uniform ideological bend toward the Left.
by Parker Thayer on April 3, 2023

Organization Trends
States Newsroom: A Tip of the “Dark Money” Iceberg
If the 2020 election proved anything, it’s that so-called mainstream media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox News are little more than Democratic Party activists posing as serious journalists.
by Hayden Ludwig on January 7, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Sean Spicer and his critics
[Continuing our series on deception and misdirection.] I’ve worked as a press secretary for politicians—for candidates for Congress and statewide office, for a controversial U.S. Senator, and, at the state…
by Dr. Steven J. Allen on April 27, 2017

Organization Trends
Dishonest Fact-Checkers
Summary: Both of the nation’s most prominent fact-checking organizations—FactCheck.org and PolitiFact—tilt to the political left, which makes them representative of the majority of journalists who also lean to port. Both…
by Barbara Joanna Lucas on March 10, 2017