fact checking

By Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning Nov. 11, 2020 Millions of people have migrated away from Facebook and Twitter since the election. As the companies have clamped down on misinformation, they have clashed with Republicans and conservatives who have spread lies about the election’s outcome, leading to claims that the tech platforms are censoring them. They (Mark Levin, Maria Bartiromo,…

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By Margaret Sullivan  Media columnist August 29, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Daniel Dale met President Trump’s convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking that left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper looking slightly stunned. The cable network’s resident fact-checker motored through at least 21 falsehoods and misstatements he had found…

Read More Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless.