“Fact Checkers” Again Label Truth As “Mostly False” Before Confirming It’s Truth

I absolutely LOVE “fact checks” these days!!! They almost always confirm exactly what they announce they’ve proven false. And this one is pure comedy gold. These “fact checkers” are doing more to undermine their own credibility than I ever could. And I’m totally here for it.

During an appearance on “Jesse Watter’s Primetime,” Maria Bartiromo correctly stated that the US doubled their Russian oil imports in the last year.

But that statement reflects unfavorably on the Biden admin, who claim to be “tough on Russia” while simultaneously greenlighting Putin’s major financial golden goose, the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and killing America’s oil independence by killing the Keystone XL pipeline so we were forced to be more dependent on Russian oil. Which they continue to buy during the Russia Ukraine crisis.

So Politifact, that trusty propaganda arm of the government/media machine, came in and slapped that unfavorable statement with a “MOSTLY FALSE” label to try to stop it from propagating. Because a “mostly false” fact check label will effectively kill the story on all social media platforms and immediately undermine the story’s credibility with anyone who may see the story.

“The U.S. did not double oil imports from Russia in the last year.”

Then they proceeded to confirm, almost verbatim, what they just pretended to have proven was “mostly false.”

“The U.S. did double the amount of crude oil imported from Russia last year.”

There’s just one work which he uses to label this “mostly false,” and that word is “crude.” Yes, it is 100% accurate that the U.S. doubled the amount of crude oil that we imported from Russia last year. That is an undeniable fact. But Reyes, the author of the “fact check,” took issue with the fact that she didn’t specify crude versus refined versus crude and refined oil imports.

To anyone with half a brain, it’s obvious that Bartiromo was referring to crude oil imports, which were doubled, when she said that oil imports were doubled. But Reyes had to find something to nitpick so he could label this “mostly false.” Hilariously, though, he even minimized this distinction in his own “fact check,” taking greater issue with the fact that Bartiromo insinuated that the U.S. has become increasingly reliant on Russian oil recently, which is an objective truth, and one which is incredibly inconvenient for the Biden Administration, for which Reyes apparently is a propaganda operative.

For context on how this fact check thing really works, aside from labeling the actual story itself, this article I have written about it will not be able to be disseminated on Facebook, one of our largest sources of viewership, because Politifact works directly with Facebook. And the company can’t risk angering Politifact by posting unfavorable content about their disingenuous and misleading fact checking practices, even if I provide copious evidence of their disingenuity and refute their “fact check” with verifiable facts. If we do this, we will be subject to harsher restrictions and more labels from “independent fact checkers,” which labels will trigger Facebook algorithms to suppress our viewership by burying our content in feeds or simply not propagating it in feeds.

Essentially, they can lie to you with a fake “fact check,” use that lie to manipulate the information that is allowed to be disseminated on major platforms, and then use their position as the arbiters of “truth” as leverage to keep anyone from holding them accountable.