"So-called fact-checkers have shown their bias for a while now.
- Politifact, for example, will call criticism of President Biden’s actual words false based on what the president meant, for example, while affording Republicans no such benefit.
...Yet there was still a hope that eventually, a sense of integrity would surface and they’d knock it off.
They brutally murdered that sense of integrity with this stunt."But recently Politifact, a Facebook-approved partner in so-called “fact-checking,” went to even more desperate lengths to protect a Democrat from legitimate criticism by way of using their vast power to slap a “missing context” label on some stories shared to Facebook that were critical of Politifact’s May 24th “fact check” of a tweet from Georgia’s attorney general that claimed Stacey Abrams supported Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game out of Georgia last year after the state’s election reform bill was signed into law. Politifact labeled the claim “false,” but our sister site Twitchy was among several that noted in their write-ups about it that Politifact left out the fact that the USA Today editorial Abrams wrote that they cited as “evidence” was actually stealth-edited after publication and after MLB made their decision in what some suggested was a deliberate editorial move designed to soften Abrams’ stance on boycotts in order to make her seem less supportive of them.
Here’s the thing about the stealth-edit, though.
Everyone knew it had been edited.
USA Today was blasted for the edit.
There are numerous news reports with evidence that the edits happened..."
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