CBS News has the dubious distinction of publishing what must be this week’s most absurd fact-check. And it was a high bar.

On Thursday, during the final 2020 presidential debate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden lied, claiming that the Obama administration did not separate children from families caught illegally crossing into the United States. The Obama administration, with Biden serving all eight years as vice president, most absolutely did this. But you would never know this from following CBS News’s “fact-check” of the evening.

Recommended Stories

Biden calls to shut down immigration detention centers: ‘We don’t need them!’

Voters turn against Biden over handling of child migrant surge

‘Democrats have persistently distorted’: Michelle Obama hit with Associated Press fact check for ‘misleading’ claim about ‘kids in cages’ during DNC speech