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Is FactCheck.org affiliated with a political party or movement?

By this, I am asking if they are politically neutral, or if they tend to slant one way or the other.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Some will associate the Annenberg foundation with leftist/socialism.

    However, Walter Annenberg was a billionaire, philanthropist, and a pretty well known Republican, friend of both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

    So, you just need to interpret the info and decide.

    In general, it seems to recap the facts independently.

  • FactCheck.org is a non-partisan, nonprofit website that describes itself as a "'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics." It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.

    If you look at the site yourself and do a search for Obama, you'll find a bunch of stuff where they point out Obama being less than 100% truthful.

    And some on the right say it's liberal because they debunk a lot of chain e-mails and other lies that are generally initiated by the right. That should only go to show their dedication to the truth, not dedication to political affiliation.

  • 1 decade ago

    The founder was a republican. The people who sit on the foundation are mixed. It doesn't really matter, because who write the articles are capable of reporting the truth. If you read their descriptions, you will see that they back up what they say and they point out untruths on both sides.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Notice how the conservative point out its liberal bias, but the liberals all say, "No, it's neutral." Could it be more clear that it's liberal? If it were neutral, each party would complain it's biased the other direction. Think about it.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Cons are the ones usually spouting hilarious lies that need to be debunked and spreading them around in chain emails, so that would make factcheck.org seem liberal upon first glance, but the truth does not have a bias even if cons feel as though it does.

  • Jason
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Nope.

    They have called BS on Democrats and Republicans alike.

  • 1 decade ago

    When they catch a Democrat in a lie they are fair and credible but when they catch a Republican in a lie they are left-wing liberals.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Nearly all of the so-called "fact check" sites are run by dopey liberal kids who you wouldn't hire to weed your garden.

    The Annenberg Foundation was hijacked by left-wing radicals.

  • Run by libs

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