Accuracy in Media

You won’t believe the lie President Trump has been caught in now. He tweeted: “With one Yes vote in hospital & very positive signs from Alaska and two others (McCain is out), we have the HCare Vote, but not for Friday.” No senators are in the hospital. It was later confirmed Trump was referring to […]

As the Daily Caller News Foundation pointed out, a Huffington Post writer was incorrect in asserting a liberal narrative about the EPA’s Clean Water Act (known as WOTUS) rule, which was dismantled by the Trump administration. The writer claimed, “dismantle [a] rule that protects drinking water for 117 million.” The Daily Caller News Foundation determined […]

The Democrats railed against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for meeting with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during his time as a U.S. senator (which also coincided with the 2016 cycle as a surrogate for the Trump campaign). One Democratic U.S. senator, Claire McCaskill, tweeted that she never met with the Russian ambassador in question. However, […]

Hindsight is 20/20, but the question looms large: Why did the Associated Press start fact-checking Donald Trump and his cabinet appointees (such as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s recent comment on historical black colleges and universities and school choice) and did not fact check Obama or any of his cabinet secretaries? We checked the Associated Press’s […]

Technically, Facebook will employ warnings for users to see that the link and news is disputed and could be fake. Hmm, if only there were fact checkers for the liberal media…like us at AIM! Oh, and Facebook will trust other third-parties to do the fact-checking. Articles that are known to be false — seemingly published […]

Excusing partial-birth abortion is a thing, apparently, at NPR. This is from their fact-check from last night’s presidential debate: Very few of the millions of abortions performed each year involve dilation and extraction, which is called “partial-birth abortion” by opponents. These are abortions performed after 20 weeks. It would be extremely unusual, if it is […]

NPR fact-checked Trump’s statement on America’s heroin overdose problem, and he was right: The Drug Enforcement Administration says the threat posed by heroin in the United States has increased since 2007. Heroin is available in larger quantities, used by a larger number of people, and is causing an increasing number of overdose deaths. In 2014, […]

NPR’s fact-checking had caveats, such as when Donald Trump railed against Chicago’s strict gun laws, NPR agreed that Trump was right. However, they added that the illegal guns flow in from the neighboring state of Indiana. Trump was correct about the strict gun laws in Chicago and blaming Indiana for guns is not an accurate […]

The Heller decision was not about child safety regarding guns, which was what Hillary Clinton insinuated in last night’s presidential debate. The Heller case was about a special policeman having a permit to store a handgun in his own home. This is how Hillary Clinton responded to a point on the Heller decision: Well, I was upset because […]

Isn’t that unusual to cite an organization’s own internal numbers and use that as the sole source? That’s what NPR did during last night’s presidential debate surrounding Planned Parenthood and the abortion topic: According to Planned Parenthood’s own numbers, about 9 percent of its services are cancer screenings. An additional 42 percent of its services […]