Popular fact-checking website PolitiFact crashed during Trump’s State of the Union

Thomson Reuters Non-partisan fact-checking website PolitiFact could not keep up with requests and crashed during President Donald Trump’s first-ever State of the Union on Tuesday. “Welp … our website just crashed,” PolitiFact’s website tweeted at 9:49 p.m. EST, only to announce they were back online five minutes later.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW […]

Trusted fact-checker? Politifact duped by Bergdahl satire piece, tediously explains why it’s fake

One of the top fact-checking websites, tasked with combatting the spread of fake news by the paragons of Silicon Valley virtue, Google and Facebook, has knowingly fact-checked a satirical website. In either a gross misuse of time and resources, a lame attempt at some kind of meta-satire or some truly cynical and condescending journalism, the […]

Politifact inadvertently hosted a digital currency miner

You might expect a pirate website to use something as shady as a secret cryptocurrency miner, but that’s now becoming a problem with above-board sites — and it’s not on purpose. Politifact visitors have discovered that the site was inadvertently hosting JavaScript code that hijacked your processor to mine virtual coins. The fact checker tells […]