{"id":285143,"date":"2016-12-16T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/9-reasons-why-politifact-is-unqualified-to-label-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:22:55","slug":"9-reasons-why-politifact-is-unqualified-to-label-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/9-reasons-why-politifact-is-unqualified-to-label-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Reasons Why PolitiFact Is Unqualified to Label \u2018Fake News\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Left-leaning PolitiFact is on the newly revealed list of \u201cfact checking\u201d organizations\u00a0Facebook will reportedly use to label\u00a0\u201cfake news\u201d stories as they appear on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations,\u201d Facebook VP Adam Mosseri wrote in the Facebook news blog. \u201cIf the fact checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s decision to tout\u00a0PolitiFact as a credible and independent fact checker is awfully disturbing, given the organization\u2019s repeated smear campaign against Donald Trump\u00a0throughout the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s \u201cfake news\u201d flaggers,\u00a0Politifact, et al., have a history of showing sympathy for left-wing narratives.\u00a0Time and again\u00a0PolitiFact published stories that favored Hillary Clinton\u2019s candidacy, while promoting \u201cfact checks\u201d meant to rebut\u00a0or embarrass Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of the many instances proving why\u00a0Politifact is completely unqualified to be an objective judge of what\u2019s real and \u201cfake\u201d news.<\/p>\n<p>1. Last March, PolitiFact delivered a\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2015\/mar\/13\/ted-cruz\/ted-cruz-says-iran-annually-has-death-america-holi\/\" target=\"_blank\">mostly false<\/a>\u201d\u00a0rating for a\u00a0<em>joke<\/em> made by Republican Senator Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>2. Last April,\u00a0PolitiFact made phone calls and sent a reporter to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-journalism\/2015\/04\/03\/politifact-fact-checks-scott-walkers-sweater-sends-reporter-to-check-kohls-clearance-racks\/\" target=\"_blank\">investigate whether\u00a0Governor Scott Walker<\/a> actually \u201cpaid one dollar for\u201d a sweater he bought at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/9-reasons-why-politifact-is-unqualified-to-label-fake-news\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-leaning PolitiFact is on the newly revealed list of \u201cfact checking\u201d organizations\u00a0Facebook will reportedly use to label\u00a0\u201cfake news\u201d stories as they appear on the social media platform. \u201cWe\u2019ll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations,\u201d Facebook VP Adam Mosseri wrote in the Facebook news blog. \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}