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Washington Post fact-checker goes to bat for IRS spying proposal

By Becket Adams
Published October 20, 2021 8:24pm ET
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Washington Post fact-checker goes to bat for IRS spying proposal
A man walks past the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. President Donald Trump's top legislative priority took a major step forward as the Senate narrowly approved a budget vehicle for tax cuts -- but sharp divides over an array of non-binding amendments revealed the towering challenge he faces from here. | (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

The “fact-checking” genre is one of the most reliably dishonest and worthless forms of journalism.

The Washington Post published a fact check this week flunking Republican Sens. Mike Crapo of Idaho and John Kennedy of Louisiana for accurately criticizing the Biden administration’s since-amended proposal to empower the IRS to collect data on all bank accounts that see more than $600 in annual transactions.

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