Cory Booker's Blab-a-Thon Underlines 'Fact-Checker' Tilt
Facts And Fact Checking,Cory Booker,Politics,Media Bias
On April 7, Facebook pulled the plug on the censorship of "independent fact-checkers," replacing it with a "Community Notes" approach, like Elon Musk's X uses. No one was more upset than the censorious left-wing "fact" police.
Angie Holan, the leader of the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network, marked "International Fact-Checking Day" by proclaiming they are needed now more than ever: "Fact-checking holds the line on reality for history's sake. It builds evidence-based records that can withstand political pressures."
Fact check? False. Poynter's PolitiFact routinely demonstrates that its "line on reality" is a party line. It doesn't "withstand political pressures." It's a political pressure group seeking to damage Republicans.
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