Politifact is a left-wing nutjob outfit.

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Politifact is a left-wing nutjob outfit.-Nostra

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They should be forced to remove "fact" from their title.


To those wondering why Nostra so triggered, here's the context. Alex Jones started a hoax in Infowars and somebody made it into a thread in USMB.
When PolitiFact noted that this is all a hoax, Nostra became embarrassed for believing the hoax. His embarrassment then led to uncontrollable anger, which led to this impulsive thread:
 
They should be forced to remove "fact" from their title.


To those wondering why Nostra so triggered, here's the context. Alex Jones started a hoax in Infowars and somebody made it into a thread in USMB.
When PolitiFact noted that this is all a hoax, Nostra became embarrassed for believing the hoax. His embarrassment then led to uncontrollable anger, which led to this impulsive thread:
You mad?:banana:
 
Alex Jones was forced by a court of law (he wouldn't do it himself) to apologize to families of Sandy Hook victims who lost their small children to a murderer. He would harrass them and tell them they were paid actors. He had to forcibly be told to apologize to them.

That is how scummy Alex Jones is. Think about that for a second - making your fame off dead children.
 




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“Conspiracy theory” insult is losing its power

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corbet report is just a conspiracy pseudoscience site.

 




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Thomson Reuters Foundation partially funded by Gates Foundation(among others)

AfricaCheck.org partners (including Gates Foundation)

International Fact Checking Network funders.

Securing Democracy (Hamilton 68) neocon council neocons

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Microsoft is trying to fight fake news with its Edge mobile browser

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1) The 5G/Coronavirus link

2) Soros and the Black Lives Matter Protests

3) The Trump-Epstein Connection

Fact Check: Bill Gates and the “God Gene” Vaccine

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corbet report is just a conspiracy pseudoscience site.


You like others to do you thinking for you huh?
 
From the OP, Nostra: "
Politifact is a left-wing nutjob outfit.


Actually, I kinda like Politifact.
I use them somewhat regularly when I am a bit curious over some statement or some development. There are other fact-checkers too, it has sorta become a growing cottage-industry, even before Don Trump came on the scene--bigly.
But he turbo-charged it.
After all, just one fact-check outfit, Glenn Kessler's 'Fact-Check' at the Washington Post tallied Don Trump with, if memory serves, 30,000+ 'mis-truths' (they studiously avoid calling them 'lies', as that requires knowing intent.)....so 'falsehoods', mis-truths, un-truths......seems to be glass-slippers that fits Don pretty well.

Sometimes Politifacts is covering what I'm interested in, sometimes not.
But when they do, they add a perspective that I can then fit into my 'whole-holistic' approach to news. Meaning, one needs to look a several sources.

One cannot just watch MSNBC, or OAN......and then think one is well informed. One has got to cross-pollinate with several sources. I've often said to friends that one should only watch the two major cable news outlets with a split screen.....left side, CNN; right side, FOX.

Anyway, for sincere readers here, I would recommend checking out Pulitzer Prize winning "Politifacts"....to add one more piece to the puzzle of understanding things.


ps.....for some other post, I will share my take on two lunches I attended with Politifacts editors. Both were well-educated journalist (Medill & Columbia) and impressively articulate and measured in their comments.
 
Alex Jones was forced by a court of law (he wouldn't do it himself) to apologize to families of Sandy Hook victims who lost their small children to a murderer. He would harrass them and tell them they were paid actors. He had to forcibly be told to apologize to them.

That is how scummy Alex Jones is. Think about that for a second - making your fame off dead children.
Cool story.
 
They should be forced to remove "fact" from their title.


To those wondering why Nostra so triggered, here's the context. Alex Jones started a hoax in Infowars and somebody made it into a thread in USMB.
When PolitiFact noted that this is all a hoax, Nostra became embarrassed for believing the hoax. His embarrassment then led to uncontrollable anger, which led to this impulsive thread:
That's rich, use the democrat fact checker that he is discrediting to try to discredit him. You morons are better comedy than prime time.
 
Alex Jones was forced by a court of law (he wouldn't do it himself) to apologize to families of Sandy Hook victims who lost their small children to a murderer. He would harrass them and tell them they were paid actors. He had to forcibly be told to apologize to them.

That is how scummy Alex Jones is. Think about that for a second - making your fame off dead children.
Cool story.
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Odd response.
 
They should be forced to remove "fact" from their title.



Duh
 

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