When David Cameron said the UK budget deficit was bigger than Greece's the Channel 4
News FactCheck team scrutinised the statistics and found the Conservative leader was using an old set.
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The Conversation's
FactCheck team will be in Townsville during the Queensland election campaign, keeping track of politicians» claims and working with academics to test them against the evidence.
Labour
told FactCheck that, because the Tories aren't promising to protect the front line, police and PCSO numbers would be at risk.
(This has been a constant line of attack for some days now, although Duncan Smith's tax credit claims did not survive the Channel 4
FactCheck treatment.)
There's now a global network
of factcheck units, operating in myriad different languages.
His intervention came after Channel 4 News
FactCheck revealed that a number of urban MPs were concerned that reducing housing benefit payments would force the poor out of major cities, and after Prime Minister David Cameron promised to divert # 70m to calm the row.
So for Alistair Darling to assert that it is Conservative Party policy to remove child tax credits for households on an income of # 30,000 (or # 31,000) can not be condoned
by FactCheck.
The government denies plans to delay a decision on a replacement for the Trident nuclear deterrent - as a Channel 4 News
FactCheck analysis finds there would be extra costs involved if it were to do so.
Cathy Newman's
FactCheck finds that David Cameron's claim that unemployment will fall every year requires a big leap of faith.
(Lauer failed to push back on a series of false statements Trump made during that interview, which spurred a broader conversation about journalists» responsibility to
factcheck politicians.)
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FactCheck dot org: In a new TV ad and in his speeches, President Obama makes an INFLATED claim to have added 5.2 million new jobs.
Election FactCheck «s previous check on this issue found that when all grocery items were included, the best estimate is that Coles and Woolworths control 55 - 60 % of Australia's total grocery market.
It comes
after FactCheck revealed that around a dozen Tory MPs representing London seats aired their grievances in a meeting in Westminster yesterday over the planned housing benefit cap.
Mr Miliband reiterated a quote from Channel 4 News
FactCheck in which a DWP source said: «There are many cases in London that are going to be special cases.
The single example that NOM could provide to the
non-partisan factchecking group was one that had been examined and rejected by multiple courts.
The
Ukrainian factchecking site StopFake, which tries to police propaganda images being spread about the Ukraine crisis, is reaching 1.5 million unique visitors a month just 3 months after its launch, Lydia Tomkiw reports for NiemanLab.
And that means here
at FactCheck HQ there's plenty to scrutinise.
FactCheck understands we won't have long to wait to find out the truth as there's an announcement from Department of Health tomorrow.
FactCheck Rating: 3 (How ratings work) Verdict While the West Lothian Question remains an important political issue, its practical impact on legislation has to date been limited.
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Now FactCheck has looked at the Labour option for a so - called «death tax» - a means tested compulsory contribution towards your social care costs paid at point of death.
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from FactCheck with Cathy Newman - Read and comment: does the budget hurt the rich more than the poor?
The most recent information we've
FactChecked suggested Labour might be on the right lines — but frankly there is so much uncertainty around the tax that we just can't say whose sums add up.
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«This analysis provides evidence of the value of the extended correction of misinformation,» said co-author Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and co-founder of its
project FactCheck.
As well as adopting Full Fact's own model of
live factchecking, we also produced impartial briefings for voters on the issues we thought would be important to them in deciding their vote.
At the same time,
FACTCheck tests for ATR compliance and identifies what further action and any additional supporting documents, if any, are needed.
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FACTCheck streamlines the tax transcript analysis process into an auditable format which helps lenders speed up, standardize, and document their underwriting process,» said Greg Holmes, National Director of Sales and Marketing at Credit Plus.
FactCheck Q&A: are South Australia's high electricity prices «the consequence» of renewable energy policy?
This year, Carbon Brief was forced to publish two
factchecks rebutting hyperbolic claims about the «burden» EVs will place on the UK's grid.
Elsewhere, we published
media factchecks about stranded whales and wind farms, the Grenfell Tower fire and «duped world leaders».
Carbon
Brief factchecked these claims, showing that the model - observation comparisons in the study depend greatly on the dataset and model outputs used by the authors.