{"id":1485453,"date":"2022-05-20T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485453"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:30:20","slug":"politifail-politifact-confuses-two-government-agencies-in-embarrassing-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifail-politifact-confuses-two-government-agencies-in-embarrassing-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFAIL: PolitiFact Confuses Two Government Agencies in Embarrassing \u201cFact Check\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitifail-politifact-confuses-two-government-agencies-in-embarrassing-fact-check%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485453&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>n the latest display of fact checker incompetence, PolitiFact boldly corrected a story\u2026.. by confusing two different government agencies and fact checking the wrong claim.<\/p>\n<p>Writer and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse caught the error, which was made when PolitiFact tried to correct a post on the White Coat Waste Project Facebook page. The Project has the goal of ending taxpayer funded animal experiments, and recently ran an ad about Morgan Island in South Carolina where lab monkeys are bread for the National Institute of Health (NIH). The island is also known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fox28media.com\/news\/local\/sc-congresswoman-accuses-national-organization-of-testing-on-monkeys-for-research\">Monkey Island<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A video of the ad can be viewed below:<\/p>\n<p>In a comment on the ad, PolitiFact jumped in to post a \u201cfact check\u201d from their equally incompetent counterpart, the Associated Press. \u201cDr. Anthony Fauci was not involved in the research on monkey\u2019s described here, which was conducted in a different division of the National Institutes of Health from the one in which Fauci works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact check, which was from October of last year, specifically addresses the claim that \u201cFauci\u2019s experiments include one that magnified terror in the brains of monkeys and subjected them to frightening stimuli,\u201d and concludes that \u201c\u2019Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is not involved and has never been involved in this study,\u2019 NIMH\u2019s press team said in an emailed statement. \u2018Additionally, the study was not funded by NIAID.&#8217;\u201d (NIMH is the National Institute of Mental Health).<\/p>\n<p>But there was one major problem: the White Coat Waste Project was not alleging involvement from the NIMH, but rather from NIAID, which Fauci does run. The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fact-checking-151646750074\">Associated Press<\/a>\u2018 \u201cfact check\u201d also had nothing to do with Monkey Island \u2013 it appears that the PolitiFact brain trust just saw the word \u201cmonkeys\u201d in the headline and assumed they were addressing the same claim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White Coat Waste Project, a watchdog group that fights govt-funded animal testing, ran an ad on Facebook about an island in South Carolina where lab monkeys are bred for NIH. Politifact, FB&#8217;s official fact checker, jumped in to call it disinformation. There&#8217;s only one problem\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/op3pgfxJXM\">pic.twitter.com\/op3pgfxJXM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leighton Woodhouse (@lwoodhouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lwoodhouse\/status\/1527129558381580288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Woodhouse continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Politifact \u201cdebunked\u201d WCW\u2019s ad by pointing to an article that disputed *an entirely different claim.* The AP article wasn\u2019t about the South Carolina island. The claims in WCW\u2019s ad are accurate, demonstrable and not in dispute.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of many reasons why all the calls for social media monitoring for \u201cdisinformation\u201d are short-sighted, ridiculous, and self-serving for those who call for it. The monitors aren\u2019t only plainly politically biased; they\u2019re also incompetent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PF has since revised their initial comment:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-665478\" src=\"https:\/\/ww3.bongino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww3.bongino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pf.png 323w, https:\/\/ww3.bongino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pf-300x121.png 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for the initial claims about Monkey Island, journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/timcast.com\/news\/exclusive-faucis-niaid-confirms-they-own-all-monkeys-bred-on-south-carolina-island-to-be-tortured\">Cassandra Fairbanks<\/a> looked into the story last year, and received confirmation from NIAID of the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The island has been managed for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases by Charles River Laboratories, one of the largest suppliers of laboratory animals in the world, since 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe island is currently owned by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and leased by Charles River Laboratories, Inc., as part of a contract with NIAID. The nonhuman primates raised on Morgan Island are owned by NIAID,\u201d NIAID confirmed in their email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/CONT_AWD_HHSN272201800009C_7529_-NONE-_-NONE-\">federal spending databases<\/a>, a total of $13.5 million of a potential $27.5 million contract has been given to Charles River Laboratories to maintain the monkey island colony since March 2018. A sizable chunk of those funds, $8.9 million, was paid by Dr. Fauci\u2019s division (NIAID) of the NIH.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No wonder PolitiFact just gave up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Palumbo is the author of\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss The Dan Bongino Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest display of fact checker incompetence, PolitiFact boldly corrected a story\u2026.. by confusing two different government agencies and fact checking the wrong claim.Writer and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse caught<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}