During a recent broadcast, I said that once Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, “Twitter will be flooded with hate, and a lot of it will come from people on the left who want to show how hate-filled it is. It’s like their race-hoax industry. If you see a noose on a college dorm of a black student, the odds are overwhelming that the noose was put there by a black student. If you see the ‘N-word’ on a dormitory building, the odds are overwhelming that a black student actually did that. We’re filled with race hoaxes.”
One of the better-known self-proclaimed fact-checkers, PolitiFact, declared my claim “false.” It offered no refutation of what I said and provided no examples of nooses or the “N-word” on campuses perpetrated by white supremacists. Instead, they made a self-defeating argument: “Experts who track hate crimes told PolitiFact that there isn’t even a nationwide data source that Prager could have used to pin down the number of incidents—real or fake—that specifically involved hanging a noose or scrawling the racist insult on college buildings or grounds.”
So, if there is no such database, how could PolitiFact declare what I said “false”? At most, they could say “maybe true, maybe false.”
Investigative Issues: PolitiFact Gets a Fact-Check
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