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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


An analysis of all verdicts delivered by Fact Check across the last decade shows that Labor and the Coalition notched up similar proportions of red (negative), green (positive) and — most commonly — in between.

They shift start and end dates, omit and over-inflate data, leave out key context, or simply make invalid, apples-and-oranges comparisons.

In a doorstop interview, Katter said people were "entitled to their sexual proclivities, let there be a thousand blossoms bloom" before his demeanour darkened and he declared he would spend no more time on the topic.

And during the 2019 election campaign, then-prime minister Scott Morrison's assertion that an electric vehicle couldn't tow a boat or trailer was found to be in need of a tune up.

Enter CheckMate (originally CoronaCheck): a weekly newsletter produced in partnership with RMIT FactLab, published on the ABC News website and sent directly to subscribers' inboxes every Friday.

Take, for example, former Liberal turned United Australia Party politician Craig Kelly, whose pronouncements about vaccines and unproven COVID-19 treatments have been covered regularly since Australian cities were first locked down.


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