Sentences with phrase «government fact checking»

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These figures rarely get a fact check, but they shape public opinion, drive donations and become arguments for government intervention.

There's an idea that there is, in fact, a fourth branch of government that provides a final check and balance against power: the press.

Maddow said she hoped fervently that what Republicans find palatable about Paladino is the fact that he is the «anti-establishment, anti-government spending choice — unless the spending is government rent checks payable to him.»

The fact is that since the government and parliament have decided to devolve their sovereignty on this issue to the people whose will needs to be respected, the referendum of 23 June can not be treated as this sovereign issuing a blank check to the government or for that matter to parliament.

The fact check is correct that the UK government does not require parliamentary approval prior to the initiation of airstrikes.

The Buffalo News has partnered with PolitiFact.com — a Pulitzer Prize - winning fact - checking website run by the Tampa Bay Times — to launch PolitiFact New York, which will augment the political and government coverage already provided by The News» Albany bureau chief, Tom Precious.

Citifm correspondent in the northern region who was dispatched to Bole to check the facts, revealed that managers at the facility (Bole CRIG) told him President Mahama has never used or slept in the facility after the renovation as being alleged by propagandists of the Akufo - Addo government.

While no background check system — including the government's — is infallible, the fact is that virtually any bad actor can check into a hotel with no background check and no questions asked — and such bad actors have checked into hotels and we have all seen the tragic consequences.»

Some may see civil liberties issues in these checks but any such attacks from Labour will be blunted by the fact that the Brown government had also started to enlist Experian but the Coalition is determined to make wider use of their services.

The third fact of life is that American government is built around checks and balances that make new legislation difficult to pass and blocking it relatively easy.

While we played, the class used laptops to fact - check the accuracy of the various towns, government buildings, weapons, and politicians featured in the game.

Responsibilities include: • Conducting research in government databases • Fact - checking and proofreading copy • Writing short news briefs, entries for various news blogs, and possibly some longer feature articles and news articles.

This information has been used to fact check claims about salaries, verify data from other open records requests, and hold government spending accountable.

In fact, it is a dangerous confirmation that without the truth citizens can not keep their government and leaders in check.

There are several restrictions on this program, however, so if you're in a public service job, we suggest you check out the federal government's fact sheet on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Some topics that might be addressed include constructive ambiguity, objectivity, predictive histories, perception management, parallel space, brainwashing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, fact - checking, self - confirming feedback loops, psychedelic consciousness, post-political governments, causality and correlation, managed outcomes, Bayesian belief networks, reframing the narrative, optics, non-linear warfare, shape shifting, hypernormalization, and simplify, revise, over-simplify.

My first questioning of WA sea levels with scaremongering from a government report, and breathlessly shouted from the roof tops at The West Australian West Australian sea level BS... fact checking the gloom and doom with DATA

However, those solutions are in fact real and have been proven to provide the energy needed to power our economy, and, they, or at least fossil fuel technology, was developed largely without government assistance — there was no tax code available to to abuse when Rockefeller drilled his first well and built his first refinery, and the government of the mid to late 1800s was not writing checks to private industry for anything with the possible exception of defense related expenditures.

There is politics to this, but the policy - related / law answer has to do with the fact that, while a criminal background check would certainly make sure you've never been convicted of a crime, that would not do anything about folks who were trying to slip away not from the government, but from, say, a creditor to whom a person owed a lot of money.

If we allowed only private actions brought under the criminal law, we would lose both the expertise and the disciplinary op - portunities to keep the prosecutor in check, facts that occur as a result of the government serving as a repeat player in the criminal justice system.

There are several restrictions on this program, however, so if you're in a public service job, we suggest you check out the federal government's fact sheet on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.