Politifact
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| operator | Tampa Bay Times |
| On-line | 2007 (currently active) |
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Politifact is an American journalistic research and review project in the field of US politics: reporters and authors subject statements from members of the US Congress , the White House and lobby groups to a " fact check ". The editorial is from the newspaper Tampa Bay Times of Florida operated and affiliated media.
Politifact publishes the original statement ( the original statement ) and compares it with researched facts. The statements are assessed with a "Truth-O-Meter" ("truth content indicator"). The rating ranges from "truth" ("true") for completely accurate statements to "Pants on Fire" (based on the children's saying "Liar, liar, pants on fire", German about "Liar, Liar, Burning Büx '" ) for completely false statements ( see also " Fake News " ).
The portal was started in 2007 by the then head of the Washington office of the Tampa Bay Times, Bill Adair . The editors wrote a computer program with which statements could be quickly checked by means of a database query . During the candidates' campaigns in the 2008 US presidential election campaign, 750 political statements were checked for truthfulness.
During Barack Obama's presidency , an "Obama-O-Meter" documented the number of election promises he had kept . Since Donald Trump's presidency, the portal has received even greater attention beyond the USA: detailed factual checks of statements by members of the Trump administration and by Trump himself are carried out on a daily basis. The “claim” (the claim) of the president's spokesman , Sean Spicer , that the inauguration of the president on January 21, 2017 was the largest US inauguration to date, was investigated and with “pants on fire”, that is, “completely untrue ", rated.
Both major political camps in the USA ( Republicans / Democrats ) see from time to time a certain imbalance or a “bias” of the points examined in the other direction. One of the most relevant points of criticism is that PolitiFact takes on certain statements by means of its fact check that cannot really be subjected to this method correctly.
Lie of the year
Since 2009, PolitiFact has determined the lie of the year from the political establishment of the USA every year . Donald Trump's often repeated assertion that Russia had no influence on the 2016 presidential election campaign became "Lie of the Year 2017".
Awards (selection)
- 2009: Pulitzer Prize in the "National Journalism" category (for accompanying the 2008 US presidential campaign )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angie Drobnic Holan: All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others. In: The New York Times . December 11, 2015, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 14, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Pulitzer Prize. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
- ↑ medium - magazine for journalists. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Obamameter. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
- ↑ PolitiFact: No, Donald Trump's inauguration wasn't the largest ever. Retrieved February 14, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ Brett Samuels: PolitiFact editor: We chose Trump's 'Lie of the Year' because of how often he repeated it . In: TheHill . December 24, 2017 ( thehill.com [accessed July 21, 2018]).