Elizabeth Warren’s 'Medicare for all' pitch would fail a Facebook fact-check

Much has been made recently of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s demand that Facebook fact-check political ads. Most political campaigns would be pretty empty if promises and policies were held to any useful standard of accuracy, but the Massachusetts Democrat doesn’t seem to care about that reality.

Yet instead of debating the practicalities, let us for argument’s sake embrace Warren’s idea, and use it as a litmus test for her own proposals: Would the candidate be allowed to advertise on Facebook under her proposed rules? The short answer is no. Warren’s claim that we can have “Medicare for all” without raising middle-class taxes would never make it past any serious fact-checker.