“Shooting the messenger” is an especially loud way for newsmakers to respond to a pesky news organization. Another approach is a lot quieter. So quiet, [...]
Accusations of media bias are nothing new in political journalism. But those charges are particularly fraught for fact-checkers, whose roles require them to make factual [...]
Introduction Media fact-checking has become a fact of life for political professionals, especially at the national level and in places where local news organizations have [...]
Members of Congress cited national media fact-checks 80 times in floor speeches and debates from 2013 to 2014 — and Republicans referred to fact-checkers [...]
Most newsrooms’ early efforts to referee political communication focused on the content of political advertising. During election seasons, just trying to keep up with those [...]
Of the various ways to respond to critical fact checks, perhaps the easiest is to simply modify or even drop a faulty message. But the [...]
Politicians talk about fact-checking — a lot. But “you don’t have to take my word for it,” as Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington once [...]
Even before PolitiFact’s Lou Jacobson contacted a congressional press secretary back in 2010, the spokesman’s boss had accumulated a disappointing series of low scores on [...]
False information on Twitter overpowers efforts to correct it by a ratio of about 3 to 1, according to a study published today by the [...]
The amount of fact-checking journalism produced in the United States is increasing dramatically, and while there are limits to its persuasiveness, it is a measurably [...]
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