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On May 3, 2024, Zebra Fact Check sent a correction request to PolitiFact concerning its assessment of Florida’s proposed abortion rights amendment. Of note, our request includes the claim that the Miami Herald evaluated the same claim and came to a different conclusion. In fact, the two stories looked at different, albeit equivalent, claims. We acknowledge the mistake while holding…
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Zebra Fact Check sent a correction request to PolitiFact on April 18, 2024. With the correction request we received no reply from PolitiFact. Typically we receive a standardized reply acknowledging receipt of the email.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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Zebra Fact Check sent Slate unequivocal evidence that its updated reporting on Donald Trump’s “Truth-O-Meter” record still contained falsehoods.