Correction request sent to PolitiFact, April 17, 2024
Zebra Fact Check sent a correction request to PolitiFact on April 17, 2024 regarding an apparently duplicated fact check. We received PolitiFact’s standard (automated?) response in reply.
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Email outreach to IFCN director Angie Drobnic Holan, April 16, 2024
Zebra Fact Check reached out to International Fact-Checking Network director Angie Drobnic Holan (cc Poynter president Neil Brown) to point out a set of discrepancies on its newly redesigned page showing signatories active and otherwise.
Correction request sent to PolitiFact, April 11, 2024
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.
Email outreach to Dulce Ramos of the IFCN, Aug. 11, 2018
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.
Email to President Neil Brown of the Poynter Institute, April 1, 2024
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.
A reply, of sorts, from the International Fact-Checking Network, March 20, 2024
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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Slate helps spread PolitiFact’s false narrative
Is Donald Trump the least accurate politician PolitiFact has ever fact-checked? PolitiFact has said so, even publishing an article devoted to the idea. But Zebra Fact Check showed the fact checkers don’t have the data to back the claim. Some other politicians have equal or perhaps better claims to the title, ignoring for the sake of argument that “Truth-O-Meter” ratings…
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Correction request sent to Slate, March 17, 2024
Zebra Fact Check sent Slate unequivocal evidence that its updated reporting on Donald Trump’s “Truth-O-Meter” record still contained falsehoods.
Correction requests sent to Slate, Feb. 5, Feb. 6, and Feb. 22, 2024
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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Seeking the elusive Poynter Institute correction
On Aug. 3, 2023 and Feb. 1, 2024 (x2) we wrote to the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute asking for corrections to cases where the IFCN credits/blames Bryan W. White (this author) with resolving unresolved complaints about IFCN signatory organizations. Yet the Poynter Institute has not corrected the apparently false reports and has not explained its decision not…
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