Email outreach to Kaiser Family Foundation/PolitiFact reporter Victoria Knight
Zebra Fact Check reached out to Victoria Knight of Kaiser Family Foundation and PolitiFact in an attempt to resolve discrepant reporting by those two entities.
Monthly Archive: April 2022
Seeking clarification or correction from Kaiser Family Foundation
A research tangent from an apparent PolitiFact error led Zebra Fact Check to a Kaiser Family Foundation page claiming U.S. law does not permit abortion up until the moment of birth. KFF offered no information to substantiate its claim. So we filled out and submitted a form asking either for the backing information or else a correction. That was on…
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Two complaints about PolitiFact sent to the IFCN, April 19, 2022
After PolitiFact failed to act for over a week in response to two correction requests we sent on April 11, 2022, Zebra Fact Check sent complaints about PolitiFact to the International Fact-Checking Network. Both complaints alleged PolitiFact failed to adhere to its commitment to an open and honest corrections policy.
Another correction request submitted to PolitiFact on April 11, 2022
A PolitiFact fact check published April 5, 2022 resulted in justified pushback on social media. Zebra Fact Check summarized the objections in the form of a correction request, submitted on April 11, 2022. On April 12, 2022 we followed up our first email with one correcting a mistake in our correction request. We will update this item if and when…
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Correction request submitted to PolitiFact, April 11, 2022 (Updated)
A PolitiFact fact check from April 8, 2022 made an ambiguous and misleading claim comparing costs of insulin in the United States to elsewhere. Accordingly, we asked PolitiFact for a correction. We will update this post when and if we note PolitiFact has either corrected the item or otherwise responded to the complaint. Update/Correction note: We changed the background description…
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PolitiFact botches abortion law fact check
On April 7, 2022 PolitiFact published a fact check concerning Colorado’s new abortion law. PolitiFact drew immediate criticism on social media for failing to support its conclusion. Colorado law and late term abortion After a Facebook post said Colorado’s law codifying state abortion rights made abortion legal up until delivery, PolitiFact stepped in to fact check. PolitiFact’s fact check, by…
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