Complaint to the International Fact-Checking Network regarding PolitiFact, June 20, 2019 (Updated x2)

On June 20, 2019 Zebra Fact Check sent a complaint about PolitiFact to the International Fact-Checking Network about PolitiFact’s failure to fix an obvious error in a PolitiFact Oregon fact check concerning Social Security.

Zebra Fact Check used the example as a failure of PolitiFact’s commitment to an open and honest corrections policy. The text of the complaint follows in .pdf form.

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Correction Feb. 23, 2020: When we first published this item it ended up as a duplicate of a different problem at PolitiFact Oregon. This post was rewritten to point toward the second of two problems at PolitiFact Oregon.

See the full explanation here, along with an archived version of the flawed content.