Since I’ve become a pretty outspoken critic of “fact checking”, I often get asked if there’s any media fact checking efforts I approve of. The short answer is no, not really.

The long answer is that, while they’re all bad, some are better than others. The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, whose work studying the results of media fact checking I have previously noted, is out with a new analysis. They’ve compared the work of PolitiFact to the Washington Post’s fact checker, Glenn Kessler:

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