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Updated: Politifact strikes again

By Ashe Schow
Published May 11, 2015 7:09pm ET
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Updated: Politifact strikes again
Because the domain name attacking Carly Fiorina mentioned 30,000 laid-off workers first, Politifact is okay making a Republican look bad. (AP Photo)  | Charles Krupa

The website carlyfiorina.org claims that Fiorina laid off 30,000 Hewlett-Packard employees and said she wished she had laid them off faster.

Despite this being a completely untrue statement, Politifact rated it as “half true” because 30,000 people were indeed laid off from HP.

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