Headline RoundupOctober 16th, 2020

Fact-Checking the Trump and Biden Town Hall Events

Summary from the AllSides News Team

President Donald Trump and Joe Biden held simultaneous town halls on separate networks Thursday night. Both candidates made at least some false or misleading statements. Some on the left and center praised NBC's Savannah Guthrie for her pointed questioning of Trump during the event; some on the right criticized ABC's George Stephanopoulos for not asking Biden about the New York Post's controversial story published earlier this week on his alleged corrupt foreign business dealings with Ukraine. More fact checks of the town halls were published in left-rated outlets than in center- and right-rated outlets. Some fact checks in left-rated outlets said that Trump made significantly more false statements than Biden. Fact checks in center- and right-rated outlets tended to focus on a specific candidate or a specific claim.

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