Tag Archive: AP Fact Check
Bryan W. White
August 3, 2022
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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Bryan W. White
July 23, 2022
When AP Fact Check looked at the question of whether abortion ever counts as medically necessary, we found its reasoning of a kind with the Health Feedback/Science Feedback fact check we panned back in 2019. Both fact checks equivocated on the key term “abortion,” and AP Fact Check went further by failing to identify key sources. The Equivocation Game In…
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Bryan W. White
July 15, 2022
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.
Bryan W. White
July 15, 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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