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Washington Post “Fact-Checker” Gets Fact-Checked After Complaining About Getting Fact-Checked

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  • Source: Bongino
  • 04/04/2023
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Among the most amusing fact-checker fails of the week has come from the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler. Like others, he suddenly decided that despite receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from George Soros, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg somehow still isn’t linked to Soros.

To justify this argument, some so-called “disinformation reporters" such as Ben Collins (who seems to take his job description literally) have denied that Soros and Bragg are linked on the basis that the two have never gone out for a beer together - and I’m only being slightly hyperbolic

Meanwhile, Kessler described accurately reporting the truth as an “incendiary claim” about Soros and Bragg. 

“Republicans are being slippery here. Claiming Soros ‘funded’ Bragg is simply false, but many rely on the more ambiguous phrase of ‘backed,’ which is technically correct by several degrees of separation. But it’s still misleading and worthy of Three Pinocchios,” wrote the alleged fact-checker who struggles with understanding what the word “backed” means. 

After posting his article to Twitter, the fact-checker was quickly fact-checked by Twitter’s “community notes” feature, where users are able to submit feedback. To the dismay of Kessler, a note was added to his post reading: “Soros Donated $1 million to the Color of Change PAC, the largest individual domination it received in the 2022 election cycle, days after it endorsed Bragg for DA and pledged more than $1 million in spending to support his candidacy.”

This comes as Soros himself tries to distance himself from Bragg. This is normal for Soros, as he also denied funding former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin after his humiliating recall election defeat.


There are of course going to be “degrees” of separation, as the only way to legally give a candidate that sum of money is through a PAC. No conservative has ever denied that this is how Soros is funding candidates, so it's unclear why Kessler thinks this is a rebuttal. 

Kessler then complained about that community note correcting him, which, in turn, resulted in another community note. 


 

Amusingly, the Soros-funding of Bragg was never worth faux-debunking until Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump pointed it out. 

Nationwide, Soros has spent at least $40 million backing 75 radical far-left prosecutors who are no fans of the law and order they’re tasked with enforcing. 

Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
 


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