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Jun 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
On Tuesday, the Washington Free Beacon posted a story with the headline “Fact Check: Nearly 100 Percent of Political Contributions From Fact Checkers Go to Democrats.” It was amplified on Twitter by Elon Musk. The story is wrong. A thread:
The story intermixes two common definitions of a fact-checker. @LeadStoriesCom a member of the IFCN, looked at the FEC data behind the claims in the stories. The donors are anyone who self describes themselves as a “fact-checker.” docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…