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February 01, 2018

PolitiFact: It Has Come to Our Attention That Maybe Alan Grayson Wasn't the Best Choice to Join Our Fact-Checking Team

This is real.

We sought out a Democrat and Republican to critique our work in order to try to improve the trust and credibility in fact-checking and PolitiFact. It has become clear our choice of Alan Grayson did not meet that threshold to many. pic.twitter.com/uJuoHhiObI
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 1, 2018

Okay, so he wasn't a "fact-checker," but a checker of their fact-checking operation.

PolitiFact thought he was a credible, cool-headed, cautious and cognitively lucid individual.

Ehhhh...

Alan Grayson demonstrates proper gun safety with a pal

That about wraps it up for PolitiFact, no?

posted by Ace at 05:10 PM

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It has become clear our choice of Alan Grayson did not meet that threshold to many. pic.twitter.com/uJuoHhiObI — PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 1, 2018 Okay, so he wasn't a "fact-checker," but a checker of their fact-checking operation. PolitiFact thought he was a credible, cool-headed, cautious and cognitively lucid individual. Ehhhh... 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