Rockingham County Republican Committee
Fact Checks,
Media Bias, and Misinformation
Who Are the Fact Checkers?
Fact checking can be straightforward review of statements made by public officials or celebrities, but most often is a research question constructed with a negative answer. A problem with fact-checking is if the focus is biased in frequency, targeting particular individuals, organizations, companies, or political parties more frequently.
Wikipedia List of Fact Checking Websites
[This is an international list by country with some description. The list is incomplete especially with regard to politically conservative U.S. organizations, but offers some insight into the subject. One major missing organization is the Middle East Media Research Institute in Israel.]
American University's List of Fact Check Sites to Identify 'Fake News'
[A good balanced list of places to go to find out about the accuracy of stories in the news]
Fact Checking Sites for Student Fact Checkers - WebLiteracy by Pressbooks
[The sites recommended for students here lean Democrat and are more likely to "fact check" Republicans]
How to Fact Check History - A Quick Guide
July 14, 2022, Gone But Not Forgotten: Retracted Covid-19 Papers Still Cited, The Scientist
Dec 26, 2022, The Top Retractions of 2022, The Scientist
Fact Checks - Democrats
Jan 11, 2023, Biden Aides Find Second Batch of Documents, NBC News
Jan 10, 2023, A Side-by-Side Look At the Trump, Biden Classified Documents, Associated Press
[Meg Kinnard's piece fails to compare the fact that Trump's files were guarded and known to former President Trump, while Biden's were uncontrolled documents that were lost to NARA and the former President and were not included in a system of records.]
[The 'fact check' fails on its own presentation of facts and does not support its headline as the FDA did make some findings requiring further investigation.]
Dec 29, 2022, Rep. George Santos Scandal Has No Parallel: Top Crisis Communicators, Politico
[Hardly unparalleled in a town of narcissists like Washington, DC]
Dec 28, 2022, Joe Biden's Top 15 Most Outlandish Lies, Breitbart
Dec 28, 2022, CNN's Top 10 Fake News Moments of 2022, Truth Press
Dec 3, 2022, Report: Sam Bankman-Fried's Claim About GOP 'Dark Money' Flatly Untrue, Daily Caller
Nov 30, 2022, NASA Won't Be Renaming James E. Webb Space Telescope, Royal Patriot
[Webb was accused of participating in unlawful dismissal of LGBTQ personnel, but review of records shows otherwise]
Nov 3, 2022, Biden Says He Was A Professor, But Never Taught A Single Class for $1M Gig, Fox News
[Biden was an "honorary professor" at the University of Pennsylvania from February 2017 to April 2019]
[Sec. Mayorkas was told in advance of press conference denouncing Border Patrol agents that story was false]
[Politico falsely claimed DeSantis had never faced a Hurricane in Florida while in office]
Apr 18, 2022, Fact-Checkers to Voters: Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes, Washington Free Beacon
[Media try to undercut video damaging to the President Biden]
Feb 18, 2022, 'Mainstream' Media Hides Hillary Clinton's Hackers, Daily Signal
Jan 20, 2022, Fact-Checking Three Claims at Democrats 'Voter Suppression' Hearing, Daily Signal
Jan 11, 2022, Fact-Checking Six Claims from Biden's Georgia Voting Rights Speech, Daily Signal
[In 2021, Kessler said that Republicans were wrong about prisoners receiving $1,400 stimulus checks and that Democrats did not vote for them, but it was in fact true. Kessler refuses to admit it.]
[Abrams claim rated false]
Nov 24, 2021, Everything the Media Told You About Kyle Rittenhouse was Wrong, Washington Free Beacon
Nov 17, 2021, Ten Heinous Lies About Kyle Rittenhouse Debunked, New York Post
Sept 30, 2021, Fact Checking the Second McAuliffe-Youngkin Gubernatorial Debate, Washington Post
Sept 4, 2021, Why Isn't Biden to Blame for COVID-19 Deaths?, Daily Signal
Sept 3, 2021, 'Fact-Checkers' Rush to 'Correct' Grieving Gold Star Parents, Daily Signal
July 29, 2021, Joe Biden's Claim He One Drove an 18-wheeler Provokes Skepticism, Newsweek
July 18, 2021, Fact-Checking Six Claims at Senate Democrat's Voting Law Hearing, Daily Signal
July 13, 2021, Fact Checking Six Big Claims in Biden's Partisan-Tinged Speech on Voting, Daily Signal
June 21, 2021, ProPublica Bombshell Report Missing Donor Names, Washington Free Beacon
[ProPublica reportedly has names and tax documents of billionaire tax dodgers]
June 9, 2021, Report: Hunter Biden Used Racial Epithets in Shocking Text Messages to Lawyer, 97.1FM Talk [Forbes Magazine published a similar report online on June 8, 2021 that was shortly removed]
[Interior Dept IG Reports that Park Police Removed Protestors with Tear Gas So a Contractor Could Erect a Fence to Protect Federal Property]
June 8, 2021, Twitter Suspends Florida COVID-19 Data Scientist, DiSantis Critic, Washington Examiner
June 3, 2021, Report: US Government Officials Encouraged Cover-up of COVID-19 Origins, Daily Caller
[Classified briefing contradicts Democratic claims that border crisis does not constitute national security issue]
June 2, 2021, Biden Claimed Trump Muzzled Fauci - But Fauci Emails Said Otherwise, Daily Caller
[Note: This does not necessarily clear Chipman, as ATF and FBI were engaged in an active cover-up of ATF Actions and whether the Branch Davidians or ATF Started Shooting First. The front doors of the Branch Davidian building disappeared under FBI custody. See USDOJ Report and Court Proceedings for fuller discussion of this.]
[Binders full of racists]
May 17, 2021, Bernie Sanders' Attack on US Defense Spending Gets the Facts Wrong, Daily Signal
May 15, 2021, Study Casts Doubt on Pro-Abortion Talking Point, Washington Free Beacon
[Abortion not used for spacing children, ie. family planning, contra Planned Parenthood talking point]
May 10, 2021, Migrants Held in Shelters with Little Oversight, Associated Press
May 10, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez Berated, False Accused Border Patrol Agent, Memos Say, Daily Signal
Apr 8, 2021, Biden Gun Speech Filled With Falsehoods, Washington Free Beacon
Mar 23, 2021, EXPLAINER: Why is Biden halting federal oil and gas lease sales?, Associated Press
[Interesting the Associated Press feels the need to issue an "explainer" in support of Biden's policies.]
Mar 18, 2021, Team Biden Spreads Fake News About Trump Vaccine Record, Daily Signal
[In December 2020, Trump did not say 'find the fraud' and you will be a national hero, but rather scrutinize the ballots and you will find dishonesty. Georgia Secretary of State has had the audio all this time]
Mar 6, 2021, CNN's Biased 'Facts First' Can't Get HR1 or Mike Pence Straight, Daily Signal
Mar 3, 2021, CNN Tried to 'Fact-Check' Mike Pence's Op-Ed on HR 1. It backfired, PJ Media
Feb 25, 2021, 'Fact-Checking' Powers Leave Biden Unchecked, Daily Signal
[CNN Aired a 'Fact Check' on Trump Every Day from June 2019 Until He Left Office, but not once on Biden]
Feb 21, 2021, Fact Checkers Love Joe Biden, Daily Signal
[At a friendly CNN Townhall Biden dropped string of large and small untruths]
Oct 28, 2020, Fact Check: Joe Biden 'chumps' Quote At Pennsylvania Rally Taken Out of Context, USA Today
Oct 26, 2020, Joe Biden Called Trump Supporters Chumps as Pennsylvania Rally, PolitiFact
[Fact Checking Site Says Claim in Mostly False in Context of Nearby Rallies and Confusion About What Was Intended. There was overwhelming response to protect Biden at the end of the election. Republicans rarely given benefit of context shown with this particular comment]
Fact Checks - Republican
Dec 26, 2022, New Twitter Files Reveal How Government Censored Debate on Covid, Truth Press
Dec 5, 2022, FBI Explicitly Warned Twitter of 'Hack' of Hunter Biden Story, Daily Caller
Dec 2, 2022, Here's the List of Woke Outlets Who Avoided the Twitter-Hunter Story, Truth Press
Nov 29, 2022, Twitter's First Transparency Reports Are Here - And They Are Eye-Opening, Truth Press
Oct 17, 2022, Researcher Fact-Checks John Oliver's Misinformation on New Trans Episode, Daily Wire
Aug 12, 2022, Fact-Checking Team Biden on Who Those 87,000 New IRS Agents Would Audit, Daily Signal
June 5, 2022, Yet Another Conspiracy Theory Left Wing Media Loved Comes Crashing Down, Daily Caller
[Florida Inspector General Michael J. Bennett conducted internal investigation that debunks claims that Gov. DeSantis manipulated COVID-19 data during pandemic]
May 30, 2022, The Lie About Trump That Just Won't Die, Daily Signal [Charlottesville]
Dec 30, 2021, The Facebook Scandal That Wasn't, The Washington Free Beacon
[The WSJ Spins a Tale About Tech Giant in Cahoots with the Right]
Nov 3, 2021, Fact Check: Is Critical Race Theory Being Taught in Virginia Schools?, Daily Signal
June 29, 2021, Stop Gaslighting Parents on Critical Race Theory, Daily Signal
[Critical Race Theory is so unpopular that media are attempting to define it as discussion about race]
[Kristen Clarke Moderated Panel at Pro-Cop Killer Conference]
Apr 29, 2021, Fact-Checking Seven of Biden's Claims in His Address to Congress, Daily Signal
Apr 28, 2021, Biden's Green New Deal: Glitter, Nonsense, and Deception, Washington Examiner
Apr 20, 2021, Fact-Checking Three Claims from Senate Hearing on Voting, Daily Signal
Mar 31, 2021, Sorting Fact from Fiction in Georgia Voting Law Debate, Washington Examiner
Mar 30, 2021, Fact-Checking Six of Opponents' Claims About Georgia Election Law, Daily Signal
Mar 24, 2021, Debunking Six Myths About the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Daily Signal
Mar 15, 2021, Pompeo Cites Top Foreign Policy Achievements of the Trump Administration, Daily Signal
Mar 3, 2021, Memo to Sen Warren: In One Chart, How Much the Rich Pay in Taxes, Daily Signal
Mar 3, 2021, When Lies Matter More Than Facts, Daily Signal
Fact-Checking, Misinformation, and Media Bias
Jan 21, 2022, NPR's Fake News from the Supreme Court, Daily Signal
[The Supreme Court issued a statement that Chief Justice Roberts did not ask Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask because Justice Sotomayor who sufferes from diabetes complained]
Dec 30, 2021, The Media Did More to Erode Trust Than To Repair It, Daily Signal
[Commentators from all political spectrums called his tweet inappropriate]
Dec 20, 2021, CCP Pays DC Radio Station $4.4 Million to Broadcast Propaganda, Washington Free Beacon
Dec 20, 2021, NBC Reaches Settlement with Nicholas Sandmann, Team Tucker Carlson
Dec 15, 2021, Trafalgar Poll: Majorities of Both Parties Find the Media Untrustworthy, Daily Caller
Nov 30, 2021, John Stossell: Facebook "Fact-Blockers", Daily Signal
Nov 30, 2021, CNN Suspends Chris Cuomo Indefinitely, Daily Caller
[Suspension follows report that he misused sources to help his brother, researching his brother's opponents]
[Twitter, Facebook immediately deemed defendant guilty after Wisconsin shooting]
Oct 8, 2021, The Majority of American Think Misinformation is a Problem. Here's Who They Blame the Most, Daily Caller
Sept 27, 2021, Twitter Censors Daily Signal Video About Border Patrol on Horseback, Daily Signal
Sept 16, 2021, Amazon Blocks Ad for Book Investigating Black Lives Matter, Daily Signal
Sept 1, 2021, With Smarmy Interview, Reuters Enhances Aura of Antifa, Daily Signal
June 14, 2021, Politifact Isn't Partisan? Pants on Fire, Daily Signal
[Indivisible's new project is to purge conservative disinformation from social media]
[China Daily pays to place interviews with pro-China Quincy Institute scholar]
May 25, 2021, Child Soldiers in the Culture Wars, Washington Free Beacon
May 24, 2021, Associated Press Doubles Down on Left-Wing Rhetoric, Washington Free Beacon
[Activists demand wire service use obscure term AAPI]
May 21, 2021, Media Only Covers 'Maverick' Republicans, Not Democrats, Daily Signal
May 24, 2021, John Oliver Places Fake Sponsored Content on to Local News, The Guardian
May 22, 2021, The Rise of Politicized Fact Checkers, Real Clear Markets
May 21, 2021, The Associated Press' Empty Gesture, Washington Free Beacon
[Firing the activist Emily Wilder Won't Fix the Wire Service's Bigger Problems]
May 20, 2021, Steve Crowder is Suing YouTube, But It is Not Just About Him, Daily Signal
May 18, 2021, AP Hires Anti-Israel Activist as News Associate, Washington Free Beacon
May 18, 2021, How AP Slanted Border Coverage to Hide Crisis, Washington Free Beacon
[Wire Service ditched 'border surge' after pressure from activist groups]
May 14, 2021, Team Biden's Rigid Control of the Press, Daily Signal
May 12, 2021, To Pundits, Every GOP Fight is a Referendum on Trump, Washington Examiner
May 11, 2021, CNN's Obsession with Tucker Carlson Hits New Lows, Washington Examiner
May 4, 2021, Lincoln Project's Social Media Influence Has Plummeted, Washington Free Beacon
[Washington Post story lacks credible evidence. The author of the story is shown to be a person of great privilege]
Apr 21, 2021, Broadcast News Covers Biden Positively in Contrast to Trump, Study Finds, Daily Signal
Apr 13, 2021, The Media's Selective Reporting of Alleged Criminals' Race, Daily Signal
Apr 13, 2021, Facebook's Oversight Board Will Remove Posts Flagged by Users, Washington Free Beacon
Apr 12, 2021, Watch: Reporters Insist There Was No Riot in Minneapolis, Washington Free Beacon
Apr 9, 2021, Opinion: When Doctors Get Censored You Should Worry, NJ 101.5
Apr 5, 2021, NIH Grant to Lab on Bat-Based Corona Viruses Did Not Get Review, NIH Says, Daily Signal
Apr 1, 2021, New York Times Outsources Research on Conservatives to Media Matters, Daily Signal
Mar 25, 2021, Five Takeaways as Big Tech CEOs Testify on 'Misinformation', Daily Signal
[Reddit has been banned criticism of former employee Aimee Challenor, an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament in 2017, who hired her father an alleged child rapist to run her campaign, and has since been convicted and is serving a 22-year sentence.]
Mar 23, 2021, Grumpy Economist: Defining 'Inequality' So It Can't Be Fixed, Hoover Institution
[Actual hospitalization rate for COVID is 1-5 percent, while 41 percent of Democrats, 28 of Republicans, and 35 percent of Independents believed chances of hospitalization chances to be 50-50 in Gallup and Templeton surveys of 35,000 people. Republicans were more likely to underestimate the COVID death rate]
Mar 23, 2021, Lies, Damn Lies, and the Washington Post, Daily Signal
Mar 23, 2021, How 'Equal Pay Day' Compares Apples and Oranges, Daily Signal
Mar 19, 2021, The Social Cost of Carbon is Model Manipulation at its Finest, Daily Signal
[The “social cost of carbon” is a calculation that the Biden administration is looking to use to justify stringent regulation of carbon dioxide emissions.]
Mar 16, 2021, More Evidence Emerges that Media is on the Biden Team, Daily Signal
[The officer was attacked with bear spray on January 6, 2021. He later died. Early reports led by the NYT said the officer was killed with a fire extinguisher.]
Mar 9, 2021, How the Media Distorts Debate and Details on HR1, Daily Signal
Mar 2, 2021, Use these 32 Questions to Determine Whether a Person is Left or Liberal, Daily Signal
Feb 26, 2021, CNN's Finger-Pointing on 'Misinformation' Should Be Done in Mirror, Daily Signal
[It was widely reported in the media that Officer Sicknick was killed by being struck with a fire extinguisher]
Jan 19, 2021, Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List, Sharyl Attkisson
Dec 9, 2020, The 2020 Polls Were Even Worse Than We Thought, imediaethics.org
Jan 20, 2019, The Ten Worst, Most Embarrassing Media Errors on the Trump-Russia Story, The Intercept