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Politifact is more Politopinion
With all the brew ha ha over “fake news” lately a lot of people have been turning to supposedly nonpartisan sites like Politifact to verify the truthiness of statements made by public figures. The problem with Politifact is that the stories are written by humans with biases, intended or not. Those biases can mildly or sometime dramatically slant a rating at which Politifact has 6: true, mostly true, half true, mostly false, false, and pants on fire. If you only visit their site every so often you would likely not notice the inconsistencies routinely exhibited and one could easily argue that their use of “context” to justify ratings is warranted.
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