Fact-Checker Ignores Facts To Cover O’Rourke’s Anti-Gun Remarks

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Posted September 13, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

One downside to the internet is that a lot of false information, or “fake news” as President Trump prefers to call it, can flow hither and yon and it’s difficult to suss out the truth. Fact-checker websites popped up in an effort to help separate fact from fiction. Is Mark Zuckerberg going to give a lot of money to someone who shares a post? Is that story about someone stealing your kidney legit? The fact-checkers will let you know.

The problem is, what do we do when the fact-checkers can’t be trusted?

All of the sites are bad about it, but they tend to be subtle.

Hoax-Alert, however, made no attempt to do so. In a post written by Alan Duke, the site’s editor-in-chief who boasts a previous 26-year stint at CNN, the post seeks to “debunk” a story written at The Federalist Papers regarding a comment by Beto O’Rourke.

Did Beto O’Rourke say in the Democratic debate “Hell, yes,” Democrats are coming for your hand guns? No, that’s not true: The former Texas congressman did say if elected president, he would push to make illegal AR-15s, AK-47 and other weapons “designed to kill people on a battlefield.” He would make …Read the Rest

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