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We sent a correction request to PolitiFact on April 11, 2024. As it contained an error, we sent a follow-up message a few minutes later to acknowledge and correct the mistake. We include both messages here.
We’re publishing this vintage email after hearing a complaint that we’re never satisfied. In this email we praised Dulce Ramos of the IFCN for her key role in producing the IFCN’s report on the first year of its verification and accountability work. We consider this email proof that we found the report satisfactory.
As a follow up to emails archived on this page, Zebra Fact Check sent an email to President Neil Brown of the Poynter Institute. The Poynter Institute owns and hosts the International Fact-Checking Network.
Our trip to the Poynter Institute, followed by an email to the person I met at Poynter carrying a forwarded email from Aug. 9, 2023, ended up bearing some fruit. This page documents our email outreach thanking Alex Mahadevan for greeting us a Poynter, IFCN Director Angie Drobnic Holan’s reply, my reply to Holan and company and Poynter president Neil…
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Zebra Fact Check sent Slate unequivocal evidence that its updated reporting on Donald Trump’s “Truth-O-Meter” record still contained falsehoods.
Slate published false information from interviewee and PolitiFact employee Louis Jacobson in a Feb. 1, 2024 article. We sent two correction requests which Slate appeared to initially heed. But Slate changed its update in a misleading way, so we sent a third correction request on Feb. 22, 2024. That request, unfortunately, has a mistake on our part. One of our…
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Zebra Fact Check sent a request for an explanation to two Poynter Institute email addresses on Feb. 1, 2024.
Fact checkers at PolitiFact North Carolina failed to exercise due diligence in answering whether any Gaza protesters on a Durham highway were arrested. Accordingly we asked PolitiFact for corrections. We received PolitiFact’s standard response in reply.
In response to Logically Facts misleading so-called revision of its 2022 fetal pain fact check, Zebra Fact Check requested contact with Logically Facts’ editorial team. We’ve made such request of Logically Facts before, but have received no response despite the organization’s commitment to respond to all complaints within 48 hours.
We’ve been slow (Editor’s note 12/28/2023: Not as slow as we thought! We already posted this documentation in Oct. 2023) to document our first complaint submitted to the International Fact-Checking Network regarding PolitiFact. That’s partly because we tried to ensure that IFCN figures were clear that our emails were seeking publishable responses. It’s acceptable in journalism to publish anything received…
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