CNN Makes Misleading Claims in Joe Biden Fact Check
In a fact check titled "Fact check: Biden’s midterms message includes false and misleading claims", CNN makes some questionable calls. Social Security It's first claim is a two part claim related to Social Security, one of which states Biden misled people when he said “On our watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are going to get the biggest increase in their Social Security checks they’ve gotten.”. CNN claims this statement is misleading because "the increase in Social Security payments for 2023, 8.7%, is unusual…
Newsweek and Others Falsely Claim Ohio Abortion Illegal for 10-year Old Rape Victim
In an article titled "Fact Check: Could Pregnant 10-Year-Old Girl Get an Abortion in Ohio?" Newsweek makes a false claim that a 10-year old rape victim had to travel to Indiana for an abortion due to Ohio's "6-week ban" on abortion. Newsweek presents the claim of it's fact check as: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, claimed that an unnamed 10-year-old who crossed into Indiana for an abortion, "did not have to leave Ohio to find treatment." The news outlet ultimately decides that the Yost statement is "…
FactCheck.org Asserts Assumptions and Misconstrues Mental Health to Allege a False Claim
In a recent article titled "Ask SciCheck Files: The Relationship Between Mental Health and Mass Shootings", FactCheck.org (FCO) misleadingly describes mental health as mental illness to falsely claim that the mental health concerns of officials is irrelevant. In the article, FCO states that: In the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, some officials have cited mental illness as a reason for the unprovoked attacks. Subsequently, they list the views of former President Donald Trump, who is not an official n…
FactCheck.org Claim - Attorney General Never Called Parents Domestic Terrorists - is Misleading
In an article titled "Attorney General Never Called Concerned Parents ‘Domestic Terrorists’", FactCheck.org and Robert Farley, claim no such thing was ever said. They open with the Attorney General's statements to the accusation: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he couldn’t even “imagine a circumstance” where “parents complaining” at a school board meeting would be “labeled as domestic terrorism.” Yet, several Republicans have continued to falsely claim Garland called such parents “terrorists.” Further they acknowl…
POLITIFACT Makes Misleading Claims Regarding Biden Stance on Afghan War
POLITIFACT ("PF") claims Biden is lying when he said “I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.”. PF asserts that: ...it’s incorrect for Biden to say he opposed the war “from the very beginning.” Along with every other senator present, Biden voted to launch the war in the first place, three days after the 9/11 attacks. However, this is a relative opinion based on Biden's vote on a bill which did not explicitly name Afghanistan as the country of which the United States had declared war. What the bill act…
CNN Once Again Falsely Claims Lacking Evidence of Their Own Creation
Image Source: WWMT According to CNN, it would appear that a mere 27 ballots were in error in the 2020 election. This is obviously false and they do not directly state this, they just creatively mount paragraphs of support around the 27 ballots making this the key subject. In an article titled "Here's even more evidence that widespread election fraud isn't a thing", CNN once again states the tagline they invented, isn't a thing and once again, nobody has said it was. They make it sound like Trump said this, but he hasn&#…
POLITIFACT's Latest False Fact Check, Misinformation on Election Laws
In POLITIFACT's latest "fact check", an article titled "Steve Scalise’s flawed argument that states didn’t follow their own election laws"goes far beyond their usual mis-step. They assert that "Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., for months has said that states didn’t follow the election laws passed by their own legislatures.", which is the premise for the entire Trump "rigged election" claim as we have mentioned many times on this platform. Further they report that That’s what Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., repe…
