Fact-checking claims about race after Ferguson shooting
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter.org is republishing with permission. The shooting of 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer has...
View ArticleThe VA story the networks didn’t cover this week
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter.org is republishing with permission. Back in May, anyone who tuned in to almost any news show was guaranteed to hear about...
View ArticleFact-checking claims about the Islamic State
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter.org is republishing with permission. The violent terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State is eliciting fear from all corners...
View ArticleAmazing name leads to amusing Huffington Post correction
A Huffington Post story about a woman with an awesome name (“Cherries Waffles Tennis”) and her brush with the law resulted in an amusing correction: CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article...
View ArticleFact-checking claims about domestic violence, Ray Rice
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter.org is republishing with permission. The release of a video showing NFL running back Ray Rice striking his now-wife in an Atlantic...
View ArticleToronto newsweekly falls short on Buffy The Vampire Slayer trivia
Toronto’s NOW magazine had to issue a correction due its lack of Buffy The Vampire Slayer knowledge: This article originally stated that Joyce Summers, the mother of Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s titular...
View ArticleFact-checking the war comparisons between Obama and Bush
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter.org is republishing with permission. The irony of President Barack Obama, Nobel Prize winner and putative anti-war candidate, launching...
View ArticleA fact-checker’s toast to ‘Crossfire’
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter.org is republishing with permission. The CNN show “Crossfire,” which debuted Sept. 9, 2013, is on “indefinite hiatus,” according to...
View ArticleFact-checking the fallout from Bill Maher’s Muslim monologue
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter.org is republishing with permission. In this photo provided by HBO, Bill Maher hosts the season premiere of “Real Time with Bill Maher”...
View ArticleTop 5 falsehoods about Ebola
This story originally appeared on the PunditFact website. Poynter is republishing with permission. The spread of Ebola in West Africa, and now into Dallas, has stoked plenty of misinformation about the...
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