Double check the facts The sale barn rep told me that the weather was bad that week and they had a light run, selling less than 100 head. The feeder market wasn’t reported due to light test and the top selling weigh cow sold for $1.35, which is what they were bringing at that tim...
When facts show up in paraphrases, as the crux of an argument, or anywhere else in the content, you’ll be doing yourself and your readers a huge favor if you take the time to fact-check. Make sure you look for the same information in more than one source, and always find the orig...
Let’s check the facts.Claim: Steve Mills is Senior VP of IBM Software.Microsoft Fact Check: TRUE. Mr. Mills runs IBM Software, which is about a USD $18B business for IBM. By the way, IBM Software Group contributes about 40% of IBM’s pre-tax profit, according to a recent ...
But really, I hardly need to go to some obscure movie nobody’s seen that misquotes obscure facts nobody knows in order to find places where film commits this greatest of geek sins. Not so long ago I was part of a student team building some educational mini-games for a visitors center...
Overall, we rate NationalWorld as left-center biased based on opinion pieces that slightly favor the left. However, the extensive use of quotes and circular referencing can introduce some degree of subjectivity, which is why it is rated as mostly factual rather than highly factual. ...
‘With four more years of John Lindsay,’ the narrator intoned, ‘he will be coming to your neighbourhood soon.’ The ad flashed to the anxious faces of two well-dressed white women. ‘Vote for Fred Trump. He’s for us.’ The other commercial, ‘Real New Yorkers’, showed scenes of...
WND is deceptive in that its news articles appear moderate and not overly sensational. However, Snopes has slammed them on many an occasion for parsing facts and using inaccurate data. In my opinion, this site, concerning news, is pretty deceiving as their outward appearances seem well-balanced...
On Tuesday, Twitter added a warning phrase to two tweets by President Trump that called mail-in ballots “fraudulent” and predicted that “mail boxes will be robbed,” among other things. Under the tweets, there is now a link reading “Get the facts abo
the right and are anti-left. There is the moderate use of emotionally loaded words in headlines such as: “Hypocrisy in Liberal Racism,” and there is very little sourcing. American Liberty Report utilizes quotes vs. links, making it difficult to verify the context and facts of the ...
Wonkette‘s Ken Layne in 2001 famously declared that bloggers “can fact-check your ass.” One wonders whether he ever realized just how frenetic that real-time fact-checking would get. Bloggers and micro-bloggers on Twitter spent the evening sifting thr