Sentences with phrase «by fact checkers»

Before speaking about education when he took the podium in the school's cafeteria, Trump took sharp aim at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on foreign policy and defended his repeated assertion that he was opponent of the Iraq War from the start, a claim that has been debunked by fact checkers.

Not exact matches

Currently in production on its third season, the show will now be postponed to make some changes ordered by PBS and WNET, including hiring an additional researcher / fact checker and employing an independent genealogist to review episodes for accuracy.

Trump's claims that voter fraud affected the election have repeatedly been shot down by fact - checkers and voting officials.

This «fantasy speech» by Joe Oliver and the high likelihood that all political leaders will indulge themselves in a bit of «fact fantasy» suggests to us that there is a need for an «official fact checker» to keep a little bit of honesty in the political debate.

I will let the fact checker dig up the exact figures and then run the percentages, but by any measure it adds up overall to a very considerable advantage for the Democrats.

The army of copy editors and fact - checkers suggests that magazines believe the print version is more important by far: What appears on the blogs doesn't count, unless it is so egregious that even the subscribers of the print magazine and the advertisers start complaining.

The claim, which Trump has made before on Twitter, has been judged untrue by numerous fact - checkers.

CLIMATE scepticism is on the rise, boosted in large part by the hacked emails originating from the «climategate» scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK, and by the carelessness of fact checkers for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

When Northup's book was first published, its credibility was attacked by the usual suspects of the day, but it apparently stood up pretty well to the fact - checkers — here's an account that says it's much better than Taratino's Django Unchained, according to historian Henry Louis Gates.

The Washington Post's «fact checker» reported on Sunday that he had tabulated 2,140 «false or misleading claims» made by Trump himself during his first 365 days in office.

Indeed, 855 districts» budgets are in limbo and many districts are in jeopardy because Governor Rauner refuses to acknowledge that his politically motivated claims about a CPS bailout are categorically false, as proven time and again by independent fact checkers.

Sneering at, or ignoring, your earnest high - minded mandarin gatekeepers — «we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact - checkers,» as one Romney aide put it — is another part of closing the deal.

Before heading out to one of our recent forays, I caught up on the news on the well known climate blog, «Watts Up With That» and read the 10/39/17 article, How Google and MSM Use «Fact Checkers» to Flood Us with Fake Claims by Leo Goldstein.

Snopes.com, confirming its transformation from debunker of urban myths to just another political hack «fact checker,» cites some speculative comments made in 1930 by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius to conclude, «In essence, the relationship between carbon dioxide and climate had already been firmly established by the early 20th century.»

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Trump campaigned on alternative facts with a high percentage of whoppers identified by fact - checkers, and continues this way with alternative facts about the election, unemployment, the crime rate, terrorism, immigration rates, etc..

In their study, participants were shown «fake news» headlines that were sometimes accompanied by warnings that they were false («disputed by independent fact checkers»).

Amstrup also presented a lame critique of the portion of my Financial Post 27 February 2018 op - ed that dealt with his 2007 predictions, published 2 March 2018 by Climate Feedback (self - proclaimed «fact checkers»), that is easily refuted because it's a blatant lie.

-- «An Inconvenient Truth: Team Gore Responds,» The Fact Checker (Washington Post), October 2007, by Michael Dobbs.

It includes more than 500 video statements fact checked by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and The Washington Post's Fact Checker covering such controversial topics as immigration, Trump's tax returns, Hillary Clinton's emails, and health cfact checked by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and The Washington Post's Fact Checker covering such controversial topics as immigration, Trump's tax returns, Hillary Clinton's emails, and health cFact Checker covering such controversial topics as immigration, Trump's tax returns, Hillary Clinton's emails, and health care.

Mantzarlis asked Áine Kerr, Facebook's manager of journalism partnerships: «When will Facebook share what happens to the reach and engagement of stories that got flagged by fact - checkers?»

Demoting false news (as identified by fact - checkers) is one of our best weapons because demoted articles typically lose 80 percent of their traffic.

The company waged a global fight against fake news by cracking down on tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts, partnering with fact checkers and running full - page ads in newspapers with tips to spot fabricated stories.

Almost exactly one year ago, Facebook implemented several changes to fight fake news, including easier steps to report articles, partnerships with fact - checking organizations and features, like Disputed Flags, that alert people when they are about to read or share articles that have identified by fact - checkers as fake news.

Normally, Facebook sends fact checkers stories that are being flagged by users and going viral.

Currently, advertisers are not allowed to run ads that link to stories that have been marked as false by third - party fact checkers.

In an email obtained by BuzzFeed, Facebook's manager of news partnerships Jason White wrote to one of the company's third - party fact checkers:

The images described by Ms. Fiorina, as has been pointed out by media fact checkers, don't exist.

Remember: Fiorina's failed presidential campaign was based on a series of lies about Planned Parenthood — lies that were debunked by fact - checker after fact - checker.