By James D. Agresti September 1, 2023 Correction appended Overview After ignoring smoking gun emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop for more than two years, the Washington Post has finally reported…

By James D. Agresti September 15, 2018 The Washington Post editorial board has accused President Trump of being “complicit” in Hurricane Florence, because “he plays down humans’ role in increasing…

…Washington Post Fact Checker Trump “mischaracterizes the Democratic Party’s stance on abortion and Biden’s position.” – Unnamed staff at PolitiFact “Biden has not explicitly expressed support for late-term abortions.” –…

…Washington Post article about higher education reports: To the alarm of many educators, nearly every state has cut funding to public colleges and universities since the 2008 financial crisis. Adjusted…

…just pure distractions.” The Prosecutor Was Actively Investigating the Oligarch and Hunter One of the more outlandish falsehoods about this affair comes from the Washington Post’s lead “Fact Checker,” Glenn…

…affair comes from the Washington Post’s lead “Fact Checker,” Glenn Kessler. As alleged evidence that Prosecutor Shokin “was not investigating” the oligarch who was paying Hunter, Kessler claims: In September…

…demanded and received a share of Hunter’s dealings. Epitomizing the depths of denial about this issue, the Washington Post’s Philip Bump recently alleged in an interview there was “no evidence…

…full study can be accessed in less than 20 seconds with two clicks from the post on X that was the target of this attack. The post linked directly to…

By James D. Agresti November 3, 2011 Lambasting the Washington Post for an article about Social Security that “would have been excluded from most opinion pages because of all the…

…we supposed to believe that PolitiFact doesn’t understand that “paying income taxes” is not the same as “filing tax returns to get welfare”? Washington Post Now let’s examine a fact…

…These figures are all within the polls’ margins of error. The Washington Post’s Irresponsible Journalism In Guo’s Washington Post article, he uncritically parrots the EPI study and then worsens its…

…the Washington Post). sagging economic growth (Reuters & Yahoo Finance). “a lot of the problems with the economy” (CNN). While the Delta variant is much more transmissible than earlier SARS-CoV-2…

…Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Detroit Free Press repeated these specious allegations. Likewise, Bernstein’s claim that people were trying to purge the term “democracy” is untrue. The…

By Anna Lynn and James Agresti August 24, 2020 Overview In a Washington Post op-ed titled “More Republican Casualties From Trump’s Coronavirus Denial,” columnist Jennifer Rubin claims that “red states”—specifically…

…is not alone in masking these realities. The Washington Post‘s editorial board wrote that HAP’s paper “debunks” RR’s “famous 2010 finding that a national debt-to-gross domestic product ratio above 90…

…has made the same claim, and many media outlets have published stories saying he is correct, such as the Washington Post, Salon, FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact, the last two of which…

…president of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers admitted: The spin out of Washington was that it was only done for medical necessity, even though we knew it wasn’t so….

…mother,” late-term abortions are still performed for elective reasons by another method called “dismemberment dilation and extraction.” During this procedure, as explained in the Washington Post, “the fetal limbs are…

…Washington, DC and Brunswick, Maine. Along with FtF, a number of media outlets have promoted this story or published others in the same vein: • Huffington Post: “North Pole Melting…

…on reduced government funding. Media outlets like the Washington Post and the Associated Press are telling the same story. In the words of the AP, “Year after year, colleges say…

…for a single purpose—to kill as many people as possible in as short an amount of time as possible.” The New York Post editorial board called for a law to…

…the costs of state government administration, unfunded pension liabilities, and public worker post-employment benefits (like health insurance). In contrast, Just Facts’ figure for private schools is comprehensive and includes all…

…by appealing to a source that distorts another source that distorts its sources. To wit, a Washington Post commentary by Paul Waldman cites a 2015 report by the National Academies…

…single loophole, which incidentally, was supported by staunch proponents of food stamps, such as the Washington Post editorial board, the New York Times editorial board, and the Center on Budget…

…rioting at the U.S. Capitol. As a result of this claim, Facebook flagged and reduced distribution of a post which accused Sullivan of doing so. However, video footage indisputably proves…

…appear in articles by CBS, NPR, PBS, Reuters, the Washington Post, Vox, and ABC News, as well as commentaries published by Time, Rolling Stone, and the Los Angeles Times, and…

…aware of how demagogues exploit human foibles, it is vitally important to learn the necessary research skills to determine the truthfulness of accusations and counter-accusations. Certain influencers, like Washington Post…

…tons of plastic trash.” – Will Dunham of Reuters “Good job, humans: The oceans now contain 5 trillion pieces of floating plastic.” – Chris Mooney of the Washington Post These…

…racial strife. The Times, CBS News, and the Washington Post all identify the Trayvon Martin case as the launching point of “Black Lives Matter.” This movement contends that “virulent anti-Black…

By James D. Agresti and Alec Weisman March 20, 2015 The Washington Post recently published two opinion pieces in which the authors claimed that the economic policies of President Ronald…

…certainty, it rests upon factually solid ground. Like many media outlets, some prominent “fact checkers” have also misled the public about this issue, including FactCheck.org and the Washington Post’s Fact…

…with strict gun-control laws have less gun-related deaths A Washington Post op-ed by Ezra Klein and a New York Times house editorial both affirmed that states with strict gun-control laws…

…Telemundo, the Associated Press, and scores of outlets that are running the Associated Press piece, such as ABC News, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, and dozens…

…York Times, Yahoo!, and a number of NBC affiliates published this article. The Washington Post ran a similar story, and other media outlets and so-called fact checkers have made similar…

…Washington Post “Nearly 40% of Americans Can’t Cover a Surprise $400 Expense” – MSN “40% of Americans Don’t Have $400 in the Bank for Emergency Expenses” – ABC News “Nearly…

…to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their hands on firearms. That’s what makes America different.” Likewise, media outlets such as the Washington Post…

…places on Earth to rising sea levels. In a recent Washington Post feature entitled “The Sinking State,” Joshua Keating, a staff writer and editor at Slate, claims that “not that…

…to Nazi sympathizers. There can be no room in America—or the Republican party—for racism, anti-Semitism, hate, or white nationalism. Period.” Washington Post political correspondent James Hohmann wrote that Trump’s “comments…

…a debt. In concert with Biden, scores of media outlets—such as Politico, NPR, CNN, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post—have reported that not raising the debt limit…

…page of a 29-page report. Then, the Washington Post cited this report as proof that police are more likely to kill blacks than whites and that “there is no correlation…

…includes the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, the Providence Journal, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, CBS News, and Agence France-Presse. Comprehensive, accurate tax rates must account for all…

…climate scientist David Hastings told the Washington Post, “Hurricane Harvey and Irma should resolve any doubt that climate change is real.” Likewise: CNN’s Ron Brownstein reported during Hurricane Harvey, “There…

…the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsmax, and the Providence Journal. In total, Muir’s question illuminates more about the integrity and professionalism of journalists than it does about the positions…

…The Guardian, and the Washington Post, as well as three separate articles from the New York Times. The Times later conducted its own analysis using the same ruse as the…

…genuine risk of “death or serious physical injury.” In 2015, the Washington Post found that over the prior decade an average of about five police officers per year were indicted…

…Ruth Etzioni, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health.” Those assertions directly conflict with the CDC document in question, which states that the figures…

…deems to be reliable. These jurors were drawn from the politically stacked jury pool of Washington, D.C. where 92% of the population voted for Joe Biden. The indictment was obtained…

…hurricane season of 2017 was fueled by global warming. Such claims were reported by CNN, the Washington Post, Politico, the BBC, and others, but comprehensive facts show that rainfall and…

…has told the Washington Examiner that: “cloth and surgical masks do absolutely nothing for protection from ambient virus.” “all this song and dance of wearing cloth masks with some presumption…