Reader: Maybe rename PolitiFact the Opinion-O-Meter?
Readers took umbrage at some of our fact checks of statements by Republican presidential hopefuls and others. A sampling from our mailbag: Several readers didn’t cotton to our Half True rating of Mitt...
View ArticleA $300 million fact check
Lawmakers opened the 2013 legislative session with Speaker Joe Straus saying Texas would have the world’s 14th-largest economy if it was a nation, echoing recent research in our corner. Perhaps more...
View ArticleWere two-thirds of groups targeted by IRS not conservative?
Amid fallout from the IRS’ admission that it improperly targeted conservative groups, the liberal group Progress Texas suggested that the tax agency’s net was cast wider. The group tweeted on May 31,...
View ArticleWere two-thirds of groups targeted by IRS not conservative?
Amid fallout from the IRS’s admission that it improperly targeted conservative groups, Democratic-leaning Progress Texas suggested the agency’s net was cast wider, tweeting that "2/3 of groups...
View ArticleMailbag: ‘Your journalism professors would be so proud of you’
After we reviewed a claim about the IRS targeting groups seeking tax-exempt status, readers suggested we went overboard. We rated as Pants on Fire the claim by Progress Texas, a pro-Democratic group,...
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