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Correction requests sent to Slate, Feb. 5, Feb. 6, and Feb. 22, 2024

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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 requests communication with Logically Facts editorial team, Dec. 22, 2023

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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.

Complaint about PolitiFact sent to the International Fact-Checking Network, Jan. 26, 2018 (Update: oops, duplicate)

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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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Complaint filed with the International Fact-Checking Network about PolitiFact, April 4, 2018

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Back in early 2018 the International Fact-Checking Network had yet to develop a working complaint submission interface. We filed our earliest complaints via email. For this example the first email points out to PolitiFact its inconsistency on spending cuts to future budgets. That March 29, 2018 email (documented at this website here) gets forwarded to the IFCN to serve as…
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Correction request sent to PolitiFact, Oct. 6, 2023

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Zebra Fact Check noted that a PolitiFact fact check created a false narrative around Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, suggesting that DeSantis conflated one statistic with another when speaking about illegal immigration. PolitiFact failed to acknowledge that border apprehensions have a long history as a proxy for illegal border crossings. PolitiFact also failed to acknowledge that border apprehensions do not…
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