Once upon a time, the media used to fact check its own stories.
The former basically allows the media to spout any ideological claim it likes and disguise it as a fact check or explainer.
The latter embeds these fact checks into social media services like Facebook to censor the actual facts.
After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's disastrous launch of the Green New Deal misfired with its war on planes and cows, the media rushed to clean up the mess.
Politifact falsely rates Scott's statement as false even though it eventually admits that it's in the FAQ, but then claims that the FACT is unimportant.
In typical fact checking fashion, Politifact selects a narrow political angle and ignores the actual facts.
If media fact checkers applied the same standard, they would have rated anyone who described President Trump's travel ban as a "Muslim ban" as making a false statement, because nowhere in the text does it mention a Muslim ban.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273026/fact-check-politifact-lying-about-green-new-deals-daniel-greenfield
The former basically allows the media to spout any ideological claim it likes and disguise it as a fact check or explainer.
The latter embeds these fact checks into social media services like Facebook to censor the actual facts.
After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's disastrous launch of the Green New Deal misfired with its war on planes and cows, the media rushed to clean up the mess.
Politifact falsely rates Scott's statement as false even though it eventually admits that it's in the FAQ, but then claims that the FACT is unimportant.
In typical fact checking fashion, Politifact selects a narrow political angle and ignores the actual facts.
If media fact checkers applied the same standard, they would have rated anyone who described President Trump's travel ban as a "Muslim ban" as making a false statement, because nowhere in the text does it mention a Muslim ban.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273026/fact-check-politifact-lying-about-green-new-deals-daniel-greenfield
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