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Email outreach to AP Fact Check, July 13, 2022

Concerned over problems in a fact check published by the Associated Press through its AP Fact Check subgroup, Zebra Fact Check sought to follow AP guidelines calling for correction requests to wait until an attempt was made to fix the problem through the reporter and a supervisor. AP does not list contact information for its AP Fact Check staffers, so…
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Transparency plea sent to the International Fact-Checking Network, July 8, 2022

When PolitiFact happened to vindicate our complaint about the International Fact-Checking Network’s evaluation of a challenged Health Feedback (Science Feedback) fact check, Zebra Fact Check sent an email to the IFCN pleading for improved transparency and movement toward reform. Update Aug. 2, 2022: Supplied a missing apostrophe. Also note that we received an automated reply from Poynter’s Neal Brown (to…
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Third email outreach to Ferdi Ferhat Özsoy of the International Fact-Checking Network
Email to the International Fact-Checking Network about its review of Science Feedback’s 2019 fact check of Lila Rose, Oct. 1, 2019

Before Zebra Fact Check submitted its lone 2019 complaint about Science Feedback to the International Fact-Checking Network, we sent an email to the IFCN suggesting that its review of the fact check, intended to settle a dispute between Young America’s Foundation and Science Feedback, incorrectly judged the fact check solid aside from the involvement of biased doctors.
Correction/clarification request send to PolitiFact, July 5, 2022

Zebra Fact Check requested correction or clarification regarding a claim of fact PolitiFact included in its March 22, 2022 article titled “‘Don’t say gay’ vs. ‘parental rights’: Fact-checking claims about Florida’s HB 1557.” Sometimes PolitiFact answers email with a standardized response. In this instance we did not receive any response. We sent a second version of the correction/clarification request minus…
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Correction request sent to PolitiFact, July 1, 2022
Correction requests submitted to PolitiFact, June 27, 2022

On June 27, 2022, Zebra Fact Check sent a correction request to PolitiFact via [email protected] PolitiFact issued a “Mostly True” rating for President Biden’s claim that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision made the United States “an outlier among developed nations in the world.” We explained to PolitiFact it used an unrealistic approach to defining “developed nations” that was inconsistent with…
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Complaint to the International Fact-Checking Network about PolitiFact, June 16, 2022
Complaint to the International Fact-Checking Network about PolitiFact, June 8, 2022

A PolitiFact fact check got out ahead of the facts, evident after Uvalde, Texas law enforcement issued contradictory reports about events surrounding a shooting incident. PolitiFact obscured from readers that it issued apparent false reports while relying on official sources. Instead of admitting it changed its reporting, PolitiFact told readers it updated its story with new information that came out…
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