Alleged ‘Fact-Checkers’ To Be Graded On Their Bias

mrctvstaff | March 27, 2018
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The Media Research Center (MRC) announced today its new project Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers. As major news outlets increasingly rely on leftist “fact-checkers” to verify the credibility of news, the MRC will ensure the fact-checkers themselves are reliable, or exposed as liberal partisans if they aren't.

While fact-checking the accuracy of news is needed, often it is used as a medium to push a political agenda. Many fact-checking groups routinely cast judgments while failing to disclose their own liberal bias, and the public is on to it. According to a 2016 Rasmussen poll, an astonishing 62% of American voters believe fact-checkers are biased.

 “In an era of “fake news” and inaccurate reporting, it is important now more than ever that the fact-checkers themselves are exposed for their biases. MRC routinely finds instances when fact-checkers bend the truth or disproportionately target conservatives, MRC President Brent Bozell said in a statement. “We are assigning our own rating to their judgments and will expose the worst offenders. Americans deserve the truth. There must be accountability across the board, and that includes these alleged arbiters of fact and fiction.”

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(Image From Fact-Checking The Fact-Checkers)

Some of the fact-checkers the MRC will monitor include PolitiFact.comFactCheck.orgSnopes.comWashington Post Fact Checker, AP Fact Check and CNN Fact Check.

You can check out Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers by clicking here.

MRCTV is a division of the Media Research Center.

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