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Oct 06 2023
Perspectives Blog
This Week in Fact Checking: Taylor Swift’s Political Views, DeSantis’ Fracking Stance, Philadelphia Murder
News coverage often includes several forms of bias, and sometimes even flat-out misinformation.
Each week, AllSides delivers a brief summary of notable fact checks and adjacent coverage across the media spectrum.
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Fact Check From the Right“Fact-Check Time: Haley Says DeSantis Banned Fracking in Florida
Andy Gorel
Nov 16 2023
News
Fulton judge issues order blocking release of ‘sensitive’ information in election 2020 RICO
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued a protective order Thursday prohibiting prosecutors and defense attorneys from publicly sharing evidence containing sensitive information in the 2020 presidential election interference case. McAfee’s protective order will cover witness statements and other evidence that the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and lawyers representing
Georgia Recorder
Nov 16 2023
News
All The States Investigating The 2020 Election: Nevada Latest Launching Fake Electors Probe
Nevada’s attorney general is investigating the “fake electors” who submitted a false slate of Electoral College votes after the 2020 election that claimed former President Donald Trump won the state, Politico first reported Wednesday, becoming the latest battleground state where false electors and others are still facing legal consequences years after the 2020 election. Georgia: Fulton County
Forbes
Dec 15 2021
Fact Check
Facebook Fact Checks Are Opinions, Not Facts
CLAIM: Facebook’s supposed “fact check” operation is actually a vehicle for opinion, and is not, as claimed, based on fact.
VERDICT: TRUE. Facebook admitted as much in court filings this week, noting its fact checks are actually just opinions.
Facebook admitted that its “fact check” operation — which can make or break online publishers — is not, actually, factual.
As
Breitbart Fact Check
Oct 25 2023
News
Mark Meadows cooperating with special counsel in 2020 election case
Former White House chief of staff is extensively cooperating with special counsel Jack Smith's election interference investigation of former President , CBS News has learned. Meadows has provided lengthy and in-depth testimony several times in the past year before the grand jury, as well as providing prosecutors with reams of documents, including text messages, that have provided them with a
Yahoo News
Aug 31 2023
Perspectives Blog
This week in Fact Checking: CNN & Hunter Biden, Chris Christie, National Review
News coverage often includes several forms of bias, and sometimes even flat-out misinformation.
Each week, AllSides delivers a brief summary of notable fact checks and adjacent coverage across the media spectrum.
Fact Check From the Right“CNN’s Fact Check Of Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings With Russian Oligarch Proven Wrong” - The Daily Caller (Right bias)
The Daily
Andy Gorel
Aug 15 2023
Opinion
Fact check throws cold water on global ‘boiling’ claims
July was hot — no doubt about it. And media reporting on the heat wave was a raging wildfire of global warming hype.
But was it the worst-ever July scorcher, as the Washington Post, the Associated Press, USA Today, and others reported?
According to a group of fact-checkers who dug through the reports, the weather didn’t live up to the hype.
In fact, the July “Media Climate
Washington Examiner
Aug 03 2023
Perspectives Blog
This Week in Fact Checking: HBCUs, Hunter Biden, Ron DeSantis
As an AllSides reader, you probably know news coverage often includes several forms of bias, or sometimes even flat-out misinformation.
Whether the product of a carefully coordinated propaganda campaign or an innocent mistake by a journalist or social media user, misinformation is inevitable. Because of this, many “fact-checkers” have popped up as their own entities, like Snopes (Lean
Andy Gorel
Oct 23 2023
News
Seven of the 9 men running for House speaker voted to overturn the 2020 election results
Of the nine Republicans running for House speaker, seven voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results that made Joe Biden president.
After Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, took himself out of the running last week, when it became clear that he wouldn't get enough votes for the top job, nine men have lined up to see if they can pull the sword from the stone.
The fact that so
NBC News (Online)
Oct 31 2023
News
Timeline: Special counsel's probe into Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election
Former acting U.S. attorney Jack Smith was appointed in November to oversee the investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Here is how the special counsel probe has unfolded. Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee the entirety of the Justice Department's criminal
ABC News (Online)