Thread by @SethDillon

Planned Parenthood has finally acknowledged their racist roots, so what do the fact checkers who ran defense for them (and their founder Margaret Sanger) have to say for themselves?

Fact checkers had every opportunity to hold Planned Parenthood accountable. But here's @NPR "debunking" what Planned Parenthood now admits is true: npr.org/sections/itsal…

Here's @snopes trying to create distance between Sanger and the KKK, even as they admit she spoke at a klan rally. They claim she "disparaged" the klan's mission and only spoke to them to reach a wider audience. snopes.com/fact-check/mar…

Here's @snopes denying Sanger's well-documented stance on eugenics while casting her in the most positive light possible as an "early family planning advocate." snopes.com/fact-check/mar…

Here's @factcheckdotorg defending Sanger against an "alternate version of history" that they say mischaracterized her as racist. They smeared Herman Cain (who's black), while advancing PP's lie that Sanger "worked for social and racial justice." factcheck.org/2011/11/cains-…

Here's @washingtonpost calling Sanger a "racial pioneer" in their refutation of Herman Cain. They perfectly echoed Planned Parenthood's prior sugarcoating of Sanger's views, as if they'd outsourced this piece to Planned Parenthood's PR team. washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-che…

Here's @politifact making sure you know just how much Margaret Sanger loved black people, and how wrong Ben Carson is for thinking otherwise. They cite a biographer who claimed "Sanger actually opposed prejudice." politifact.com/factchecks/201…