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Complaint sent to the International Fact-Checking Network about AFP Fact Check, Aug. 5, 2022

Bryan W. White August 5, 2022 0 Comments

AFP Fact Check committed the same equivocation error other fact-checking organizations have committed while attempting to answer whether (elective) abortion can sometimes prove medically necessary. The failure either of AFP Fact Check’s correction request interface or else its desire to correct error count as a failure to scrupulously adhere to an open and honest corrections policy, hence our complaint submitted…
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AFP Fact Check, IFCN Complaints

Complaint sent to the International Fact-Checking Network about FactCheck.org, Aug. 4, 2022

Bryan W. White August 4, 2022 0 Comments

Annenberg Fact Check, also known as FactCheck.org, published an abortion fact check basing its conclusion on a fallacy of equivocation. Zebra Fact Check submitted a correction request to FactCheck.org on July 15, 2022. FactCheck.org made no apparent effort to fix its mistake and no apparent attempt to explain away the mistake. Zebra Fact Check reported the case to the International…
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FactCheck.org, IFCN Complaints

Complaint sent to the International Fact-Checking Network about AP Fact Check, August 2, 2022

Bryan W. White August 3, 2022 0 Comments

AP Fact Check failed to act in response to Zebra Fact Check’s correction request noting the former’s fallacy of equivocation in an abortion fact check. Accordingly, we sent a complaint to the International Fact-Checking Network noting AP Fact Check’s failure to scrupulously follow an open and honest corrections policy. Note: The embedded document differs from the one sent to the…
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AP Fact Check, IFCN Complaints

Correction request sent to Reuters Fact Check, July 30, 2022

Bryan W. White August 1, 2022 0 Comments

On Dec. 27, 2021 Reuters Fact Check published a fact check examining whether anti-elective-abortion activist Alexandra DeSanctis Marr correctly stated that abortion is never medically necessary. Zebra Fact Check found the same fallacy of equivocation in that fact check that we observed from other mainstream fact checkers looking at similar claims. Accordingly, we sent a correction request on July 30,…
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Clarification request sent to The Healthy Indian Project on July 23, 2022, with response

Bryan W. White July 28, 2022 0 Comments

On July 23, 2022 Zebra Fact Check sent a clarification request to International Fact-Checking Network verified signatory The Healthy Indian Project asking it to resolve an equivocation problem in an abortion fact check. We were pleased to receive a response from THIP’s founder and CEO Sudipta Sengupta on July 24, 2022. Zebra Fact Check sent its reply to the THIP…
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Correction request sent to Lead Stories, July 23, 2022

Bryan W. White July 25, 2022 0 Comments

We found Lead Stories had addressed the question of whether abortions are ever medically necessary using the same equivocal approach we saw from other fact-checking organizations having verified status through the International Fact-Checking Network. We sent a correction request to Lead Stories on July 23, 2022.

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abortion, Lead Stories

Attempted correction request to AFP Fact Check

Bryan W. White July 19, 2022 0 Comments

AFP Fact Check used the same equivocal argument other fact-checking organizations have used in answering whether abortion is ever medically necessary. The fact-checking organization under Agence France-Presse uses a form interface instead of email submission of correction requests. After submission, we received confirmation of submission and a message that the email was not sent. We’re not sure what that means…
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AFP Fact Check, correction requests

Correction request sent to FactCheck.org, July 15, 2022

Bryan W. White July 19, 2022 0 Comments

Zebra Fact Check encountered another abortion-related fact check basing its argument on a fallacy of equivocation. We sent a correction request to Annenberg Fact Check (FactCheck.org) on July 15, 2022.

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Annenberg Fact Check, correction requests

Correction/retraction request sent to AP Fact Check, July 14, 2022

Bryan W. White July 15, 2022 0 Comments

On July 14, 2022 Zebra Fact Check sent AP Fact Check a correction/retraction request regarding its fact check “Posts falsely claim abortion is never medically necessary” from July 11, 2022.

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AP Fact Check

Email outreach to AP Fact Check, July 13, 2022

Bryan W. White July 15, 2022 0 Comments

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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AP Fact Check, email outreach