You'd think this copy and paste spamming robot would stop using websites that have been discredited, even by radical Leftists themselves, but no...
Occupy Democrats has repeatedly been caught by fact-checking websites for posting "exaggerated or invented news stories." Brooke Binkowski, a managing editor at Snopes, commented that Occupy Democrats' headlines were often "extremely misleading."
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According to
The Atlantic, Occupy Democrats' posts are "studded with straightforwardly fake news".
[2] The
Los Angeles Weekly reports that its posts are "free from the constraints of objectivity and, in some cases, facts".
[1] A 2016
BuzzFeed News analysis found it was "the least accurate left-wing page" of several Facebook pages it reviewed and cited one instance where it published a satirical story as fact.
[35] In the run-up to the
2020 U.S. presidential election,
The New York Times reported that Occupy Democrats "twisted facts to push a critical narrative about Republicans".
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In 2017,
PolitiFact included Occupy Democrats in its list of
fake news websites. However, PolitiFact later removed Occupy Democrats from its list of fake news sites and, according to the
Miami New Times, "admitted Occupy Democrats should never have been on the list in the first place."
[37] As of December 2020, PolitiFact classified 62% of 16 posts shared by Occupy Democrats it had evaluated as "not accurate".
[38] A further 31% it considered "half-true".
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In 2021, a post shared by Occupy Democrats claimed
Nikki Haley had changed her first name to sound more "white" in order to further her political career.
[39] A fact check column by
USA Todayreported that Nikki was her legal middle name, she had used it as a given name since childhood, and that it was of ethnic
Punjabi origin.
[39] The same year,
Snopes rated "False" a claim by Occupy Democrats that "Republican Congress members had abjectly failed to applaud Biden’s stated goal of drastically reducing the rate of child poverty in the United States" during that year's State of the Union address.
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In April 2022, Occupy Democrats claimed that U.S. Senate candidate
Josh Mandel had posted to social media a manipulated photo of himself showing his head on the body of a Black woman.
[41] The Mandel campaign claimed the assertion was "totally false," independent experts were unable to find signs of manipulation in the image, and PolitiFact rated the claim as "unproven" and "false".
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In July 2022, Occupy Democrats posted a photo of
Ginni Thomas holding a bottle of wine along with a false caption that the photo was a recent one and showed her celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, though the photo actually predated the decision by several years.
[42] The following month, the
Associated Press reported that Occupy Democrats "misinterpreted the content of ... [a] Pentagon [press] release" to incorrectly claim that
United States President Joe Biden would "not recognize any anti-abortion laws enacted by states" in relation to U.S. Supreme Court decision in
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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According to the
University of Iowa library, Occupy Democrats "has been known to show misleading, fake, or exaggerated partisan content".
[4] The
Valencia College library includes Occupy Democrats on a list of sources that "cannot usually be accepted at face value and need further verification from other sources to determine if information is credible".
[32] In a 2017
poster session developed by the library staff of the
University of California at Merced, Occupy Democrats was rated "questionable" for its factual reporting and was noted for not having "a very good fact check record".
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